AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i5-13400F

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i5-13400F benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-13400F performs better than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-13400F has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13400F. Despite this, the Core i5-13400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-13400F. 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.