AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-11400

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-11400

Price

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$ 58.40

$ 71.59 significantly less expensive

$ 129.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points

5682 points

26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

8370 points

38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

4847 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

4675 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3194 points

5721 points

79% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

144.07 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points

7150 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points

1888 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

7262 points

56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

1960 points

80% significantly 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

3.2 GHz

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.4 GHz

22% slightly higher turbo speed

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

576 KiB

20% slightly more L1 cache

480 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

276th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-11400 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400 is faster than the Ryzen 5 1600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-11400 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1600. Also, the Core i5-11400 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. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 1600 also has slightly 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.