AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i5-10600KF

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
$ 40.00 significantly less expensive
$ 169.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points
5658 points
25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points
7822 points
25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points
4969 points
25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points
4811 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points
5399 points
10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points
7% slightly higher Blender score
129.51 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6687 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1609 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6783 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1685 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
4.1 GHz
7% slightly higher clock speed

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
31% slightly lower TDP
125 W

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
280th 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
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i5-10600KF benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-10600KF is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600XT in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-10600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Also, the Core i5-10600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600XT CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-10600KF CPU because of its slightly 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 i5-10600KF. The Ryzen 5 3600XT also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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