Intel Core i5-6500 vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Price

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$ 103.63

$ 282.51 significantly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2289 points

10011 points

337% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4255 points

11884 points

179% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1743 points

9348 points

436% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1675 points

9142 points

445% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2113 points

8010 points

279% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

44.07 points

263.24 points

497% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3287 points

15051 points

357% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1202 points

2723 points

126% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

4.20 GHz

31% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

5 GHz

38% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

8 MiB

700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

96 MiB

1500% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

663rd of 1,089

88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6500 vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is faster than the Core i5-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6500 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more cores than the Core i5-6500. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-6500. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-6500. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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. For instance, the Core i5-6500 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.