AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i7-9700F

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i7-9700F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 3600XT is faster than the Core i7-9700F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700F in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-9700F has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Indeed, the Core i7-9700F has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has more threads than the Core i7-9700F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700F. Despite this, the Core i7-9700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700F 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 i7-9700F. 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.