To the beginner, CPUs have intimidating names like,Intel Core i7-14700KorAMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Then there are a lot of specs & features you’ll have to sort through, likeoperating frequency,cores,threads, andTDP. There is also the concern of compatibility and what other components will and...
Whereas the 1600 has a total L3 cache of 16 MB, it's split in half, so 8MB shared for 3 cores. The 5600 on the other hand has a single large 32MB L3 cache that has shared access for all 6 cores. Using the medium quality settings, both configurations are heavily CPU limited, but ...
As an aside, all modern processors feature multiple “cores”, which is where the processing is done. In a sense, each processor is basically a series of lots of smaller processors, each of which can handle a task. For applications that support multiple cores, which is most applications, ha...