AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Core i5-7600K

AMD Ryzen 7 1700
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3000 MHz / Cores: 8 / Mar 2017
AMD Ryzen 7 1700
Intel Core i5-7600K
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3800 MHz / Cores: 4 / Sep 2016
Intel Core i5-7600K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    149%
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    100%
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    136%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    180%
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 7 1700

Much higher multi threaded performance (around 80% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 49% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-7600K

Much higher single threaded performance (around 36% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
Has an integrated GPU, which allows to run the system without a dedicated graphics card, unlike the AMD Ryzen 7 1700.

AMD Ryzen 7 1700

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 1700

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 7 1700

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 1700

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 7 1700Intel Core i5-7600K
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
AES-NI
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 7 1700Intel Core i5-7600K
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Kabylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsKaby Lake
Release DateMar 2017vsSep 2016

Cores

AMD Ryzen 7 1700Intel Core i5-7600K
Cores8vs4
Threads16vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsIntel HD Graphics 630

Cache

AMD Ryzen 7 1700Intel Core i5-7600K
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16384 KB (shared)vs6144 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 7 1700Intel Core i5-7600K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
PackageuPGAvs
Die Size192mm²vsunknown
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 7 1700Intel Core i5-7600K
Cpu Frequency3000 MHzvs3800 MHz
Turbo Clock3700 MHzvs4000 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP65 Wvs95 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    4070 points
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    4800 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    32208 points
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    18240 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Rendering: LuxMark CPU OpenCL

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    2839
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    1730

points - higher is better

Rendering: LuxMark CPU C++

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    3597
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    1714

points - higher is better

Rendering: POV-Ray 3.7

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    2945
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    1659

points per second - higher is better

7-zip

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    35887
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    17994

MIPS - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Single Threaded)

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    93.08
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    139.59

points - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Multi Threaded)

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    1030.17
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    431.78

points - higher is better

3DMark06 CPU

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    8335
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    8532

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    4531
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    6814

points - higher is better

Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    29167.5
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    24179

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    1.67
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    2.02

points - higher is better

Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    15.63
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    7.87

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    147
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    179.5

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    1415
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    674

points - higher is better

SuperPI 1M

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    11.4
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    8.82

seconds - lower is better

wPrime 32

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    6
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    8.49

seconds - lower is better

WinRAR 4.0

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    3530
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    3570

MB/s - higher is better

x264 Pass 1

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    147
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    223

FPS - higher is better

x264 Pass 2

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    67
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    46.2

FPS - higher is better

TrueCrypt AES

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    8.4
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    3.3

GB/s

TrueCrypt Twofish

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    1.3
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    0.57

GB/s

TrueCrypt Serpent

  • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    0.82
  • Intel Core i5-7600K
    0.34

GB/s