Intel Core i5-11600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

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

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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Price

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$ 199.00

$ 1384.00 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6621 points

1% slightly better overall score

6502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9474 points

20% slightly better gaming score

7833 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5722 points

6045 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5531 points

5906 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

156.80 points

184.03 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8549 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7993 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2208 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1652 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

215th of 1,089

220th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11600K vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11600K is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600K. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-11600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.