AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i7-11700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 109.25
$ 249.75 significantly less expensive
$ 359.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points
7984 points
80% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points
9165 points
52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points
7574 points
92% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points
7434 points
95% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3662 points
8151 points
122% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points
208.15 points
82% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5171 points
9777 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1217 points
2159 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points
9888 points
88% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points
2246 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
Identical
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.25 GHz
5 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
31% slightly lower TDP
125 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
640 KiB
11% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

397th of 1,089
149th 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
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i7-11700K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700K performs better than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-11700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 2600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600X. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 2600X and Core i7-11700K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2600X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11700K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2600X. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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