Intel Core i7-6700T vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U

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

2714 points

3137 points

15% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4539 points

0.20% slightly better gaming score

4530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2180 points

2722 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2087 points

2633 points

26% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.88 points

86.82 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3579 points

5816 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1206 points

1691 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

40% slightly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.5 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

15 W

133% 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

584th of 1,089

519th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2023 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 i7-6700T vs Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700T is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-6700T that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700T. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700T has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700T. The Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U 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 i7-6700T has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.