Intel Core i7-7700K vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD 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

3620 points
11% slightly better overall score
3249 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5762 points
28% slightly better gaming score
4467 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2983 points
3% slightly better multitasking score
2880 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2864 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
2792 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.21 points
104.16 points
22% slightly higher Blender 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

4.2 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

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

471st of 1,089
505th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-7700K vs Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-7700K performs better than the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-7700K that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-7700K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has more L2 cache than the Core i7-7700K. The Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition 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 i7-7700K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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