AMD Ryzen 5 3600X vs Intel Core i9-10885H

Ryzen 5 3600X vs Core i9-10885H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600X performs better than the Core i9-10885H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10885H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-10885H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Indeed, the Core i9-10885H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10885H. Despite this, the Core i9-10885H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10885H 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.

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.