AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i9-10900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 129.99
$ 348.80 significantly less expensive
$ 478.79

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points
7550 points
67% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points
8222 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points
7324 points
84% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points
7249 points
88% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4889 points
7406 points
51% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points
202.00 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7102 points
9329 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1673 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1608 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7245 points
9481 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1728 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1574 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
Identical
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
73% significantly lower TDP
165 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
28% slightly more L3 cache
25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,089
165th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i9-10900X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-10900X is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10900X has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 3600XT that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900X. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 5 3600XT CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.

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