AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i3-12100

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i3-12100 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600XT performs better than the Core i3-12100. Despite this, the Core i3-12100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has significantly more cores than the Core i3-12100. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i3-12100. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-12100. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600XT 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 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.