Intel Core i7-6700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition

Core i7-6700 vs Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition beats the Core i7-6700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700. The Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition 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. Indeed, the Core i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.