AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i7-10870H

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points
5173 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points
6493 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points
4746 points
19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points
4636 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points
5545 points
13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points
17% slightly higher Blender score
118.88 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6380 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1445 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6166 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1458 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
72% significantly higher clock speed
2.21 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
45 W
111% 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
328th 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 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2933

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 i7-10870H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600XT is faster than the Core i7-10870H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-10870H in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-10870H 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-10870H. Despite this, the Core i7-10870H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-10870H 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-10870H. 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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