AMD Ryzen 3 1300X vs Intel Core i5-6500

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-6500

Price

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$ 249.99

$ 103.63

$ 146.36 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2517 points

9% slightly better overall score

2289 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4619 points

8% slightly better gaming score

4255 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1924 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

1743 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1846 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

1675 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

48.09 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

44.07 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3018 points

3159 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1039 points

1147 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3124 points

3287 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points

1202 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

624th of 1,089

663rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 3 1300X vs Core i5-6500 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 3 1300X performs better than the Core i5-6500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 3 1300X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6500. Also, the Ryzen 3 1300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 1300X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-6500. The Ryzen 3 1300X also has slightly 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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1300X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.