AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i3-9100F

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i3-9100F specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600X beats the Core i3-9100F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-9100F in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-9100F has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-9100F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-9100F. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-9100F 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-9100F. The Ryzen 5 3600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.