AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i7-9700KF

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i7-9700KF benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-9700KF 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9700KF has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600X has more threads than the Core i7-9700KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-9700KF 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700KF. The Ryzen 5 3600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.