AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i3-7100

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i3-7100 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600G performs better than the Core i3-7100. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-7100 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i3-7100 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-7100. Both the Ryzen 5 5600G and Core i3-7100 have the same clock speed. The Core i3-7100 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600G thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i3-7100. The Ryzen 5 5600G also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.