Intel Core i7-6700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 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

$ 122.39
$ 90.60 significantly less expensive
$ 212.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3117 points
7399 points
137% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4991 points
8984 points
80% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2559 points
6877 points
168% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2457 points
6735 points
174% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2828 points
6914 points
144% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

69.31 points
207.23 points
199% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4052 points
9632 points
137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1252 points
2079 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4207 points
9706 points
130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1320 points
2147 points
62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3.40 GHz
0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.6 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 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

8 MiB
32 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

523rd of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-6700 vs Ryzen 7 5700X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700X is faster than the Core i7-6700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-6700 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6700. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 5700X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700. The Ryzen 7 5700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-6700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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