Intel Core i7-6700T vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Core i7-6700T vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition specs and performance

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

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700T. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700T. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700T. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700T has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700T. 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 i7-6700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.