Intel Core i5-6500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 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

$ 103.63
$ 109.36 significantly less expensive
$ 212.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points
7399 points
223% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4255 points
8984 points
111% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1743 points
6877 points
294% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1675 points
6735 points
302% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2113 points
6914 points
227% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.07 points
207.23 points
370% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3159 points
9632 points
204% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1147 points
2079 points
81% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3287 points
9706 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1202 points
2147 points
78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.40 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.6 GHz
27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
512 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
32 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

663rd of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-6500 vs Ryzen 7 5700X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700X performs better than the Core i5-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-6500 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 7 5700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6500. The Ryzen 7 5700X 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. For instance, the Core i5-6500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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