Intel Core i7-6700K vs AMD Ryzen 3 5425U

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 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

3497 points

3624 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5633 points

5808 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2866 points

2975 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2751 points

2856 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

81.27 points

98% significantly higher Blender score

40.95 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4936 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4326 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1506 points

1509 points

0.20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz

48% significantly higher clock speed

2.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

Identical

256 KiB

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

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

482nd of 1,089

470th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 3 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6700K vs Ryzen 3 5425U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 5425U performs better than the Core i7-6700K. Despite this, the Core i7-6700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 5425U. Also, the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 5425U outputs less heat than Core i7-6700K 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 3 5425U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700K. 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 i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.