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

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

Benchmark Score
Other Benchmarks
Specifications
Comments (0)
Popular Comparisons

CPU Comparison

Quickly search and compare processors

Intel Core i7-10700T

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 99.99

$ 169.01 significantly less expensive

$ 269.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points

5467 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

7011 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

4964 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

4832 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

Free CPU Benchmark

Want to compare your processor against the Ryzen 5 3600X and the Core i7-10700T? Download our free and quick PC Performance Test.

Download CPU Benchmark

Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

111.67 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5641 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1421 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

89% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

35 W

171% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089

297th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

10th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i7-10700T comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10700T is faster 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 i7-10700T has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10700T. Despite this, the Core i7-10700T has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10700T 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.

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.