AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs AMD EPYC 74F3

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD 9 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 58.40
$ 2340.55 significantly less expensive
$ 2398.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points
5669 points
26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
7130 points
18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
5211 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
5104 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
136.28 points
35% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
12689 points
173% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
1438 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
9
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
18
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
0.19% slightly higher clock speed
3.19 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
269% significantly lower TDP
240 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
Identical
576 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4.5 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089
278th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
-

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 5 1600 vs EPYC 74F3 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the EPYC 74F3 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1600. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has 9 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the EPYC 74F3. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 74F3 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 EPYC 74F3 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1600. The EPYC 74F3 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.

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