Intel Core i5-6600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 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

$ 175.64
$ 154.35 significantly less expensive
$ 329.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2754 points
6994 points
153% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5105 points
8202 points
60% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2098 points
6575 points
213% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2013 points
6440 points
219% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2595 points
6750 points
160% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.62 points
187.18 points
236% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4043 points
10106 points
149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1429 points
1922 points
34% slightly 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

3.5 GHz
3.58 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.1 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

91 W
15% slightly lower TDP
105 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
96 MiB
1500% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

578th of 1,089
194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i5-6600K vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D beats the Core i5-6600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-6600K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6600K. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i5-6600K CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5700X3D CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. 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 5700X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D 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 i5-6600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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