Intel Core i7-11700F vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Price

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$ 235.99

$ 149.48

$ 86.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6877 points

7% slightly better overall score

6416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8972 points

3% slightly better gaming score

8665 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6226 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

5694 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6069 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

5516 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7665 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5539 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

164.87 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

139.36 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8656 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7974 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2120 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2039 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

2.5 GHz

4.59 GHz

83% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

200th of 1,089

225th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2024 January

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 i7-11700F vs Ryzen 5 5600GT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-11700F beats the Ryzen 5 5600GT in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11700F has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600GT has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700F. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-11700F has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 i7-11700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.