AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-11600K

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 58.40
$ 140.60 significantly less expensive
$ 199.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points
6621 points
47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
9474 points
56% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
5722 points
43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
5531 points
42% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3194 points
6323 points
97% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
156.80 points
56% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

6468 points
11311 points
74% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points
8447 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points
2118 points
102% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
8549 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
2208 points
103% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.9 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.9 GHz
36% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
92% significantly lower TDP
125 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
100% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 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
215th 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
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-11600K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11600K beats the Ryzen 5 1600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600. Also, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11600K 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 Ryzen 5 1600 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600K. The Ryzen 5 1600 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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