AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i7-6900K

AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3300 MHz / Cores: 6 / Jun 2017
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
Intel Core i7-6900K
Intel Socket 2011-3DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 8 / May 2016
Intel Core i7-6900K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-6900K
    129%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-6900K
    111%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-6900K
    138%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 1600X

45 watts lower power draw.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-6900K

11% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 38% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 29% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core i7-6900K

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-6900K

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i7-6900K

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-6900K

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 1600XIntel Core i7-6900K
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
XFR
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 1600XIntel Core i7-6900K
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Broadwell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsBroadwell-E
Release DateJun 2017vsMay 2016

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 1600XIntel Core i7-6900K
Cores6vs8
Threads12vs16
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 1600XIntel Core i7-6900K
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs32 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16384 KB (shared)vs20480 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 1600XIntel Core i7-6900K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 2011-3
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
PackageuPGAvs
Die Size192mm²vsunknown
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 1600XIntel Core i7-6900K
Cpu Frequency3300 MHzvs3200 MHz
Turbo Clock3700 MHzvs3700 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP95 Wvs140 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    4070 points
  • Intel Core i7-6900K
    4144 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    26571 points
  • Intel Core i7-6900K
    34406 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Rendering: POV-Ray 3.7

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    2545
  • Intel Core i7-6900K
    3196

points per second - higher is better

7-zip

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    31310
  • Intel Core i7-6900K
    43496

MIPS - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Single Threaded)

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    104
  • Intel Core i7-6900K
    132.09

points - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Multi Threaded)

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    860.58
  • Intel Core i7-6900K
    1429.65

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    161
  • Intel Core i7-6900K
    154

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1600X
    1245
  • Intel Core i7-6900K
    1549

points - higher is better