Intel Core i5-11600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 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

$ 199.00
$ 177.00
$ 22.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6621 points
8583 points
29% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9474 points
11637 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5722 points
7604 points
32% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5531 points
7365 points
33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6323 points
6996 points
10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

156.80 points
208.44 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11311 points
15510 points
37% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8447 points
12562 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2118 points
2799 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8549 points
12876 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2208 points
2889 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
4.70 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.3 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W
105 W
19% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
6 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB
32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

215th of 1,089
121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-11600K vs Ryzen 5 7600X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7600X beats the Core i5-11600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11600K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11600K. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7600X outputs less heat than Core i5-11600K thanks to a slightly 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 5 7600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600K. The Ryzen 5 7600X 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 i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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