Intel Core i5-11600KF 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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$ 208.31

$ 1374.69 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6657 points

2% slightly better overall score

6502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9464 points

20% slightly better gaming score

7833 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5784 points

6045 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5598 points

5906 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

151.30 points

184.03 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8630 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7993 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2226 points

34% 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

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly 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

213th 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 i5-11600KF vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11600KF 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-11600KF that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600KF. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600KF. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 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 i5-11600KF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.