AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i7-3770K

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core i7-3770K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Core i7-3770K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3770K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-3770K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-3770K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3770K. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-3770K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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