AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i5-1245U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Core i5-1245U. Despite this, the Core i5-1245U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1245U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X that has 6 cores. But they both have 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 i5-1245U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-1245U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1245U.

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 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.