AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs Intel Core i5-7600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 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

$ 79.99
$ 224.36 significantly less expensive
$ 304.35

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points
2899 points
26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points
5366 points
27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points
2207 points
25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points
2115 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2718 points
0.33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
2709 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points
61.33 points
49% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2796 points
4236 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points
1491 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points
4238 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points
1522 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
Identical
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
Identical
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.8 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4.2 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
40% slightly lower TDP
91 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,089
553rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Core i5-7600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-7600K beats the Ryzen 3 1200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 1200 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-7600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 1200. Also, the Core i5-7600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 1200 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-7600K 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 3 1200 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7600K. The Ryzen 3 1200 also has slightly 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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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