AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i5-6600

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i5-6600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Core i5-6600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-6600 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6600. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6600 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-6600. The Ryzen 5 3600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.