AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Core i7-6700K

Ryzen 7 1700 vs Core i7-6700K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1700 beats the Core i7-6700K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-6700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 1700 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 1700. Also, the Core i7-6700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6700K 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 7 1700 has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700K. The Ryzen 7 1700 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.