AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i3-12100F

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i3-12100F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600XT is faster than the Core i3-12100F. Despite this, the Core i3-12100F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i3-12100F that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-12100F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-12100F. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-12100F 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.

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 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.