AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i3-12100

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i3-12100 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i3-12100 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i3-12100 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-12100. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.