AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i7-6800K

AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jun 2017
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
Intel Core i7-6800K
Intel Socket 2011-3DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 6 / May 2016
Intel Core i7-6800K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    134%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    110%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    146%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

75 watts lower power draw.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-6800K

10% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 46% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 34% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core i7-6800K

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-6800K

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i7-6800K

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-6800K

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 1500XIntel Core i7-6800K
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 1500XIntel Core i7-6800K
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Broadwell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsBroadwell-E
Release DateJun 2017vsMay 2016

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 1500XIntel Core i7-6800K
Cores4vs6
Threads8vs12
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 1500XIntel Core i7-6800K
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs32 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16384 KB (shared)vs15360 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 1500XIntel Core i7-6800K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 2011-3
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
PackageuPGAvs
Die Size192mm²vsunknown
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 1500XIntel Core i7-6800K
Cpu Frequency3200 MHzvs3400 MHz
Turbo Clock3500 MHzvs3800 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP65 Wvs140 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    3850 points
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    4256 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    17177 points
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    27417 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Rendering: POV-Ray 3.7

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    1691
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    2240

points per second - higher is better

7-zip

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    21892
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    31102

MIPS - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Single Threaded)

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    100.03
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    119.27

points - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Multi Threaded)

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    574.13
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    991.01

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    152
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    154

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    799
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    1096

points - higher is better