AMD Ryzen 3 2300X vs Intel Core i7-6800K

AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3500 MHz / Cores: 4 / Aug 2018
AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
Intel Core i7-6800K
Intel Socket 2011-3DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 6 / May 2016
Intel Core i7-6800K

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 3 2300X

75 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Higher theoretical single-threaded performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-6800K

Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.

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 3 2300XIntel Core i7-6800K
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
Precision Boost
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TXT
CLMUL
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XIntel Core i7-6800K
ArchitectureAMD Zen+vsIntel_Broadwell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsBroadwell-E
Release DateAug 2018vsMay 2016

Cores

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XIntel Core i7-6800K
Cores4vs6
Threads4vs12
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XIntel Core i7-6800K
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs32 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache4096 KB (shared)vs15360 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XIntel Core i7-6800K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 2011-3
Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
PackageµOPGA-1331vs
Die Size210mm²vsunknown
Process14 nmvs14 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 3 2300XIntel Core i7-6800K
Cpu Frequency3500 MHzvs3400 MHz
Turbo Clock4200 MHzvs3800 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltagevariablevsunknown
TDP65 Wvs140 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
    4620 points
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    4256 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 3 2300X
    15400 points
  • Intel Core i7-6800K
    27417 points

Points - higher is better