AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs Intel Core i5-6500

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3700 MHz / Cores: 8 / Mar 2018
AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
Intel Core i5-6500
Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jul 2015
Intel Core i5-6500

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    228%
  • Intel Core i5-6500
    100%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    119%
  • Intel Core i5-6500
    100%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    337%
  • Intel Core i5-6500
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

19% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 237% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Around 128% higher average synthetic performance.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-6500

40 watts lower power draw.

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

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


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 7 2700XIntel Core i5-6500
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
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
vPro
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 7 2700XIntel Core i5-6500
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsIntel_Skylake
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsSkylake
Release DateMar 2018vsJul 2015

Cores

AMD Ryzen 7 2700XIntel Core i5-6500
Cores8vs4
Threads16vs4
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 7 2700XIntel Core i5-6500
L1 Cache96 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 2700XIntel Core i5-6500
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1151
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
PackageuPGAvsFC-LGA12C
Die Size192mm²vs177mm²
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 7 2700XIntel Core i5-6500
Cpu Frequency3700 MHzvs3200 MHz
Turbo Clock4350 MHzvs3600 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsunknown
TDP105 Wvs65 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    4785 points
  • Intel Core i5-6500
    4140 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    39723 points
  • Intel Core i5-6500
    14720 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    1828
  • Intel Core i5-6500
    541.5

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 7 2700X
    180
  • Intel Core i5-6500
    151

points - higher is better