Intel Core i5-11600K 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

$ 199.00
$ 200.61 significantly less expensive
$ 399.61

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6621 points
7335 points
10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9474 points
5% slightly better gaming score
8938 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5722 points
6797 points
18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5531 points
6646 points
20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6323 points
7297 points
15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

156.80 points
209.61 points
33% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11311 points
14317 points
26% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8447 points
10897 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2118 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
2052 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8549 points
11047 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2208 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2117 points

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

3.9 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

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
512 KiB
6% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB
4 MiB
166% significantly 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

215th 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

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-11600K vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D performs better than the Core i5-11600K. Despite this, the Core i5-11600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11600K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600K. 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 i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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