AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-6600K

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-6600K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600 is faster than the Core i5-6600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-6600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-6600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600. Also, the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1600 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K. The Ryzen 5 1600 also has significantly 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.