AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i7-7700

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i7-7700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600 beats the Core i7-7700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-7700 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7700. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600. Also, the Core i7-7700 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-7700. 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.