AMD Ryzen 7 5700U vs Intel Core i7-6700K

Ryzen 7 5700U vs Core i7-6700K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700U performs better than the Core i7-6700K. Despite this, the Core i7-6700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700U has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-6700K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6700K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700U 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 5700U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700K. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 5700U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.