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

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i7-9700T benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3600XT beats the Core i7-9700T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-9700T has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600XT that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has more threads than the Core i7-9700T. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-9700T. Also, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-9700T 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.

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.