Intel Core i5-11600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Core i5-11600K vs Ryzen 7 5700X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X beats the Core i5-11600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-11600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700X has slightly more cores than the Core i5-11600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i5-11600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Core i5-11600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5700X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600K. The Ryzen 7 5700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.