Intel Core i7-6700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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

$ 274.86
$ 188.99
$ 85.87 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3497 points
7857 points
124% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5633 points
10525 points
86% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2866 points
6994 points
144% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2751 points
6774 points
146% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3242 points
6449 points
98% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

81.27 points
197.05 points
142% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4936 points
12599 points
155% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1506 points
2751 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5 GHz
19% 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

2
Identical
2

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
6 MiB
499% 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

482nd of 1,089
152nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR5

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 i7-6700K vs Ryzen 5 7500F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7500F beats the Core i7-6700K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 7500F has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700K. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7500F has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7500F. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7500F 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 5 7500F has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700K. The Ryzen 5 7500F also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-6700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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