AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i7-9700

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-9700

Price

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$ 129.99

$ 208.79 significantly less expensive

$ 338.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points

5190 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points

7573 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points

4403 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points

4217 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points

5171 points

5% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

106.42 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6174 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1526 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6222 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1571 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

4.7 GHz

4% 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

166% significantly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,089

326th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

9th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i7-9700 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 3600XT performs better than the Core i7-9700. Despite this, the Core i7-9700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-9700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600XT has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has more threads than the Core i7-9700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700. Despite this, the Core i7-9700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700. The Ryzen 5 3600XT also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.