AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i7-8086K

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

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Intel Core i7-8086K

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 245.01 significantly less expensive

$ 345.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5119 points

1% slightly better overall score

5045 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6906 points

2% slightly better gaming score

6765 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4555 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

4495 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4415 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

4358 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4734 points

5045 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.91 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

130.84 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6958 points

6971 points

0.19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1612 points

1630 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7073 points

7075 points

0.03% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1665 points

1713 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

4 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

Identical

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

336th of 1,089

344th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i7-8086K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600X is faster than the Core i7-8086K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8086K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X. Also, the Core i7-8086K has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3600X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-8086K. The Ryzen 5 3600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.