AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i7-10700K

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i7-10700K comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-10700K 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 i7-10700K has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Indeed, the Core i7-10700K has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Both the Ryzen 5 3600X and Core i7-10700K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-10700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-10700K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10700K. The Ryzen 5 3600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.