AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i7-4770K

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i7-4770K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Core i7-4770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-4770K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-4770K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-4770K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-4770K. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-4770K outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600X thanks to a slightly 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 i7-4770K. 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.