AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 255H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4980 points
78% significantly better overall score
2788 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6742 points
95% significantly better gaming score
3457 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4418 points
70% significantly better multitasking score
2584 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4279 points
69% significantly better heavy workload score
2521 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

133.67 points
212.94 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6899 points
13475 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1613 points
2524 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
79% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.1 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
28 MiB
833% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

352nd of 1,089
572nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-8400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600 vs Core Ultra 7 255H specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600 performs better than the Core Ultra 7 255H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core Ultra 7 255H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 255H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 255H. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 255H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core Ultra 7 255H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 255H.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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