AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i5-10600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.99
$ 159.01 significantly less expensive
$ 289.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points
5421 points
20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points
7561 points
21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points
4735 points
19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points
4578 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points
1% slightly higher Blender score
138.09 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6447 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1606 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6270 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1624 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
4.8 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

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

389th of 1,089
301st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i5-10600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600XT beats the Core i5-10600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10600 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10600. Despite this, the Core i5-10600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10600 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-10600. The Ryzen 5 3600XT 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 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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