AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i5-7500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 109.25
$ 73.80
$ 35.45 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points
80% significantly better overall score
2458 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points
31% slightly better gaming score
4565 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points
109% significantly better multitasking score
1872 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points
111% significantly better heavy workload score
1797 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3662 points
59% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
2294 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points
139% significantly higher Blender score
47.70 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5171 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3409 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1217 points
1243 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3533 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points
1283 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.25 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
125% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

397th of 1,089
637th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i5-7500 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2600X is faster than the Core i5-7500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-7500 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-7500. Also, the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-7500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600X 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 2600X has more L2 cache than the Core i5-7500. The Ryzen 5 2600X 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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