AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i7-8086K

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 224.25
$ 120.75 significantly less expensive
$ 345.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6447 points
27% slightly better overall score
5045 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8765 points
29% slightly better gaming score
6765 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5700 points
26% slightly better multitasking score
4495 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5518 points
26% slightly better heavy workload score
4358 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points
12% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
5045 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
130.84 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11838 points
36% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
8686 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6971 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1630 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7075 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1713 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
4 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

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
Identical
128 GiB

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
166% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

235th of 1,119
359th of 1,119

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

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