AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i5-10400F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 99.99
$ 69.96 significantly less expensive
$ 169.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points
5% slightly better overall score
4847 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points
3% slightly better gaming score
6648 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points
6% slightly better multitasking score
4269 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score
4133 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points
4768 points
0.72% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
111.48 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5783 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1414 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5782 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1454 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
31% slightly higher clock speed
2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089
359th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i5-10400F comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Core i5-10400F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10400F. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10400F 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400F. 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.

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