AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i7-10700

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-10700

Price

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$ 129.99

$ 168.16 significantly less expensive

$ 298.15

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points

6267 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points

7929 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points

5718 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

5568 points

44% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points

6944 points

42% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points

143.42 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points

0.59% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

7060 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1560 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7115 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1625 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 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

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,089

238th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

10th Generation Core i7

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

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i7-10700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-10700 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600XT has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-10700. Despite this, the Core i7-10700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10700 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 i7-10700. 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.