AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i7-1165G7

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i7-1165G7

Price

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$ 109.25

$ 97.41 significantly less expensive

$ 206.66

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points

40% slightly better overall score

3157 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points

9% slightly better gaming score

5503 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points

57% significantly better multitasking score

2492 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points

59% significantly better heavy workload score

2381 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3662 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

2891 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points

101% significantly higher Blender score

56.64 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5171 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4847 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1217 points

1713 points

40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4854 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points

1716 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.25 GHz

4.7 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

397th of 1,089

517th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i7-1165G7 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2600X performs better than the Core i7-1165G7. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1165G7 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-1165G7 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1165G7. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-1165G7. Despite this, the Core i7-1165G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1165G7 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 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.