AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i5-11260H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 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

5119 points

11% slightly better overall score

4599 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

4% slightly better gaming score

6626 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

3989 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

3862 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points

7280 points

53% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

110.00 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5841 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points

1703 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6055 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

1732 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

46% significantly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

Identical

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

45 W

111% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

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

381st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i5-11260H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Core i5-11260H. Despite this, the Core i5-11260H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11260H. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Core i5-11260H 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.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.