AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-7500

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-7500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600 beats the Core i5-7500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7500 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-7500 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7500. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-7500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1600. Also, the Core i5-7500 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-7500. The Ryzen 5 1600 also has significantly 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.