AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i7-6700T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i7 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

$ 224.25
$ 199.99
$ 24.26 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points
136% significantly better overall score
2714 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points
91% significantly better gaming score
4539 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points
160% significantly better multitasking score
2180 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points
162% significantly better heavy workload score
2087 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points
172% significantly higher Blender score
56.88 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3628 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1154 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points
142% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3579 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1206 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
32% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
27% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
25% slightly more pcie lanes
16

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
100% significantly more supported memory
64 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% 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

32 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089
584th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
6th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core i7-6700T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Core i7-6700T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700T in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6700T has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700T. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6700T. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-6700T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700T. The Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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