AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs Intel Core i3-13100

Ryzen 5 5600 vs Core i3-13100 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600 beats the Core i3-13100 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i3-13100 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-13100 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-13100. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-13100. Despite this, the Core i3-13100 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i3-13100 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i3-13100.

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 5600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.