Intel Core i7-6700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Price

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$ 274.86

$ 145.00

$ 129.86 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3497 points

5020 points

43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5633 points

6843 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2866 points

4448 points

55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2751 points

4307 points

56% significantly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3242 points

5545 points

71% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

81.27 points

141.41 points

73% significantly higher Blender score

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

4 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.4 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% 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

3 MiB

200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

482nd of 1,089

345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2024 January

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 i7-6700K vs Ryzen 5 5500GT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6700K beats the Ryzen 5 5500GT in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-6700K has slightly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500GT. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700K. The Ryzen 5 5500GT 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 i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.