AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i7-11600H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 6 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

5170 points

14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points

7209 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points

4538 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

4400 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points

29% slightly higher Blender score

107.90 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6559 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points

1926 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

2.92 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

4.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

7.5 MiB

150% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

77% significantly more L3 cache

18 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,089

329th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2021 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i7-11600H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600XT beats the Core i7-11600H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-11600H in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11600H. Despite this, the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-11600H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-11600H.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.