AMD Ryzen 5 3600 vs Intel Core i7-7700

AMD Ryzen 5 3600
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 6 / Mar 2019
AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Intel Core i7-7700
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3600 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2016
Intel Core i7-7700

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    151%
  • Intel Core i7-7700
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    122%
  • Intel Core i7-7700
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    179%
  • Intel Core i7-7700
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 3600

Much higher single threaded performance (around 22% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 79% 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 51% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-7700

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 i7-7700
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
vPro
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Core i7-7700
ArchitectureAMD Zen 2vsIntel_Kabylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZen 2vsKaby Lake
Release DateMar 2019vsSep 2016

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Core i7-7700
Cores6vs4
Threads12vs8
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsIntel HD Graphics 630

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Core i7-7700
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 i7-7700
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
Packagevs
Die Sizeunknownvsunknown
Process7 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 3600Intel Core i7-7700
Cpu Frequency3600 MHzvs3600 MHz
Turbo Clock4400 MHzvsnone
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsunknown
TDP65 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    4928 points
  • Intel Core i7-7700
    4320 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600
    29514 points
  • Intel Core i7-7700
    20736 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (simulated)
    206.31
  • Intel Core i7-7700
    168

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (simulated)
    1575.75
  • Intel Core i7-7700
    877

points - higher is better