Intel Core i5-11600 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 140.00
$ 259.61 significantly less expensive
$ 399.61

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5920 points
7335 points
23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8284 points
8938 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5201 points
6797 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5041 points
6646 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

158.65 points
209.61 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8131 points
10897 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2100 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
2052 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7951 points
11047 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2104 points
2117 points
0.62% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
3.40 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
512 KiB
6% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
96 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

258th of 1,089
172nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-11600 vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D performs better than the Core i5-11600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11600. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11600. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11600. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-11600 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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