AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs Intel Core i7-6950X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 79.99
$ 678.41 significantly less expensive
$ 758.40

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points
5504 points
140% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points
6279 points
49% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points
5261 points
200% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points
5214 points
209% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2718 points
6073 points
123% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points
185.36 points
352% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2796 points
7553 points
170% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points
1192 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points
8892 points
212% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points
1370 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
10
150% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
20
400% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
3.5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
115% significantly lower TDP
140 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
2.5 MiB
25% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
25 MiB
212% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,089
293rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Core i7-6950X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6950X is faster than the Ryzen 3 1200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 1200 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-6950X has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 1200 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 1200. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 1200 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6950X. Despite this, the Core i7-6950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 1200 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6950X CPU because of its 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 Core i7-6950X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 1200. The Core i7-6950X also has significantly more 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. 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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