AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i9-10920X

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i9-10920X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-10920X beats the Ryzen 5 3600XT in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-10920X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3600XT 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 i9-10920X. Despite this, the Core i9-10920X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3600XT CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10920X CPU because of its 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.