AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i7-5820K

AMD Ryzen 5 2600
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 6 / Mar 2018
AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Intel Core i7-5820K
Intel Socket 2011-3DESKTOP
3300 MHz / Cores: 6 / Sep 2014
Intel Core i7-5820K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    122%
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    114%
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    129%
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 2600

14% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 29% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
75 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Around 22% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-5820K

None

AMD Ryzen 5 2600

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 2600

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 5 2600

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 2600

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 2600Intel Core i7-5820K
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
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 2600Intel Core i7-5820K
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsIntel_Haswell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsHaswell-E
Release DateMar 2018vsSep 2014

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 2600Intel Core i7-5820K
Cores6vs6
Threads12vs12
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 2600Intel Core i7-5820K
L1 Cache96 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16384 KB (shared)vs15360 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 2600Intel Core i7-5820K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 2011-3
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageuPGAvs
Die Size192mm²vs356mm²
Process14 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 2600Intel Core i7-5820K
Cpu Frequency3400 MHzvs3300 MHz
Turbo Clock3900 MHzvs3600 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP65 Wvs140 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    4290 points
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    4032 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600
    27376 points
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    26611 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (simulated)
    161.51
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    141

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 2600 (simulated)
    1325.06
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    1022

points - higher is better