AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 99.99
$ 199.40 significantly less expensive
$ 299.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points
12139 points
137% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points
14231 points
106% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points
11472 points
151% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points
11341 points
156% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points
10325 points
118% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points
308.32 points
125% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points
14478 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points
2652 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points
14998 points
112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points
2681 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.1 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
31% slightly lower TDP
125 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089
48th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2022 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i5-13600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-13600K beats the Ryzen 5 3600X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-13600K has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Indeed, the Core i5-13600K has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600X. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600K. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-13600K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Core i5-13600K has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-13600K.

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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