AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-4790K

AMD Ryzen 5 3600
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 6 / Mar 2019
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Intel Core i7-4790K
Intel Socket 1150DESKTOP
4000 MHz / Cores: 4 / May 2014
Intel Core i7-4790K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    152%
  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    118%
  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    186%
  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 3600

18% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 86% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Around 52% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-4790K

Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Ryzen 5 3600.

AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Core i7-4790K
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost 2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Core i7-4790K
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsIntel_Haswell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR3
CodenameZen 2vsHaswell
Release DateMar 2019vsMay 2014

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Core i7-4790K
Cores6vs4
Threads12vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsIntel HD 4600

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Core i7-4790K
L1 Cache96K (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16MB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Core i7-4790K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1150
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
Packagevs
Die Sizeunknownvs177mm²
Process7 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Core i7-4790K
Cpu Frequency3600 MHzvs4000 MHz
Turbo Clock4400 MHzvs4400 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsunknown
TDP65 Wvs88 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    4928 points
  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    4928 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    29514 points
  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    21504 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (simulated)
    206.31
  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    174

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (simulated)
    1575.75
  • Intel Core i7-4790K
    846

points - higher is better