AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4503 points
6449 points
43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6227 points
8487 points
36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3971 points
5818 points
46% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3849 points
5677 points
47% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.64 points
153.40 points
9% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
46% significantly higher clock speed
2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
45 W
111% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

389th of 1,089
223rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
11th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3600XT vs Core i9-11950H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11950H is faster than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3600XT in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-11950H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. Indeed, the Core i9-11950H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3600XT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3600XT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3600XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11950H. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11950H 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.

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