AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i7-6700

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i7-6700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600X is faster than the Core i7-6700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700 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 i7-6700 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6700. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. The Core i7-6700 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 i7-6700. The Ryzen 5 1600X 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 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.