AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i7-11800H

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

6296 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points

8432 points

35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points

5628 points

41% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

5474 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points

6720 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points

150.35 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points

8024 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points

1892 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points

7795 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points

1896 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

65% significantly higher clock speed

2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

4.6 GHz

2% 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

768 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,089

236th 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 May

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 i7-11800H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11800H beats the Ryzen 5 3600XT in overall performance. 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 i7-11800H 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 i7-11800H. Despite this, the Core i7-11800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11800H 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.

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.