AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i7-6850K

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 6 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

$ 130.00
$ 85.00
$ 45.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points
2% slightly better overall score
4066 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points
18% slightly better gaming score
5576 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points
3611 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points
3510 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points
6133 points
58% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points
103.26 points
20% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5539 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1210 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5746 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1278 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
12
100% significantly 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

4.1 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
115% significantly lower TDP
140 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
113% significantly more L3 cache
15 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089
429th of 1,089

Family

The product line

-
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September
2016 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i7-6850K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 3500X beats the Core i7-6850K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6850K in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Core i7-6850K has more threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 3500X and Core i7-6850K are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6850K CPU because of its 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 3500X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6850K. The Ryzen 5 3500X 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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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