AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i5-6600K

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i5-6600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600XT beats the Core i5-6600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-6600K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6600K. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6600K outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 3600XT thanks to a 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 i5-6600K. 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.