AMD Ryzen 3 2300X vs Intel Core i5-6600K

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2740 points

2754 points

0.51% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5046 points

5105 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2093 points

2098 points

0.24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2009 points

2013 points

0.20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.81 points

55.62 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3074 points

3989 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

992 points

1400 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3341 points

4043 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1214 points

1429 points

17% 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

Identical

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

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

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

581st of 1,089

578th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 October

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 2300X vs Core i5-6600K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-6600K performs better than the Ryzen 3 2300X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 2300X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. According to our data, the Ryzen 3 2300X and Core i5-6600K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 2300X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 2300X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6600K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 3 2300X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-6600K. The Ryzen 3 2300X 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 2300X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.