AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i7-6950X

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i7-6950X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6950X is faster than the Ryzen 5 1600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-6950X has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6950X. Also, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6950X CPU because of its significantly 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 slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6950X. Despite this, the Core i7-6950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 1600.

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.