AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Core i5-6600K

Ryzen 7 1700 vs Core i5-6600K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1700 beats the Core i5-6600K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-6600K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600K. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 1700. Also, the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6600K 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 Ryzen 7 1700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K. The Ryzen 7 1700 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 7 1700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.