Intel Core i7-6700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D

Core i7-6700K vs Ryzen 5 5500X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D is faster than the Core i7-6700K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500X3D has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6700K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500X3D. Also, the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6700K CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5500X3D CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700K. The Ryzen 5 5500X3D 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 i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.