Intel Core i5-6600K vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 2000 Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2754 points

3% slightly better overall score

2666 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5105 points

19% slightly better gaming score

4273 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2098 points

2187 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2013 points

2096 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.62 points

0.05% slightly higher Blender score

55.59 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4043 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2513 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1429 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

847 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

59% significantly higher clock speed

2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

91 W

15 W

506% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

578th of 1,089

600th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Ryzen PRO 2000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2017 October

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

Core i5-6600K vs Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-6600K performs better than the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U. Also, the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U outputs less heat than Core i5-6600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K. Despite this, the Core i5-6600K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 2700U.

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. For instance, the Core i5-6600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.