AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i5-7300HQ

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5-7300HQ comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600X is faster than the Core i5-7300HQ. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7300HQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 1600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-7300HQ that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7300HQ. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-7300HQ. The Core i5-7300HQ outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a 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 Ryzen 5 1600X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-7300HQ. The Ryzen 5 1600X 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 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.