AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i5-1245U

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points

5% slightly better overall score

4282 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points

1% slightly better gaming score

6145 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

3732 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

3606 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

92.33 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

137% significantly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

800 KiB

108% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

6.5 MiB

116% significantly more L2 cache

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

412th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i5-1245U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600XT beats the Core i5-1245U in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1245U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-1245U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600XT has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1245U. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1245U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1245U.

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.