AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i7-6500U

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i7-6500U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Core i7-6500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U 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 i7-6500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6500U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6500U. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-6500U 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.

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.