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    AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-6500

    AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
    3200 MHz / Cores: 6 / Apr 2017
    AMD Ryzen 5 1600
    Intel Core i5-6500
    Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
    3200 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jul 2015
    Intel Core i5-6500

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      151%
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      100%

    Relative performance

    Single thread performance index

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      100%
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      112%

    Relative performance

    Multi thread performance index

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      180%
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 1600

    Much higher multi threaded performance (around 80% 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 51% higher average synthetic performance.

    Reasons to consider Intel Core i5-6500

    12% higher single threaded performance.
    AMD Ryzen 5 1600

    Gaming

    HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 1600

    Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.
    AMD Ryzen 5 1600

    Productivity

    HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 5 1600

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

    Specifications

    Features

    AMD Ryzen 5 1600Intel Core i5-6500
    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
    AES-NI
    TSX
    TXT
    CLMUL
    FMA3
    F16C
    BMI1
    BMI2
    vPro
    Boost 2.0

    Architecture

    AMD Ryzen 5 1600Intel Core i5-6500
    ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Skylake
    MarketDesktopvsDesktop
    Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
    CodenameZenvsSkylake
    Release DateApr 2017vsJul 2015

    Cores

    AMD Ryzen 5 1600Intel Core i5-6500
    Cores6vs4
    Threads12vs4
    SMPs1vs1
    Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

    Cache

    AMD Ryzen 5 1600Intel Core i5-6500
    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 5 1600Intel Core i5-6500
    SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1151
    Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
    PackageuPGAvsFC-LGA12C
    Die Size192mm²vs177mm²
    Process14 nmvs14 nm

    Performance

    AMD Ryzen 5 1600Intel Core i5-6500
    Cpu Frequency3200 MHzvs3200 MHz
    Turbo Clock3600 MHzvs3600 MHz
    Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
    Voltageunknownvsunknown
    TDP65 Wvs65 W

    Raw performance index

    Raw single-thread performance estimation

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      3960 points
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      4140 points

    Points - higher is better

    Raw multi-thread performance estimation

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      25766 points
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      14720 points

    Points - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    Rendering: POV-Ray 3.7

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      2361
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      1367

    points per second - higher is better

    7-zip

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      29509
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      14559

    MIPS - higher is better

    3D Particle Movement (Single Threaded)

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      94.29
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      117.2

    points - higher is better

    3D Particle Movement (Multi Threaded)

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      793.56
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      356.76

    points - higher is better

    3DMark06 CPU

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      8222
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      6653

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      4538
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      5746

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      25970
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      19577

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64Bit

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      1.65
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      1.74

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      12.57
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      6.35

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      147
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      151

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      1134
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      541.5

    points - higher is better

    SuperPI 1M

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      12.7
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      10.4

    seconds - lower is better

    wPrime 32

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      5.2
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      10.6

    seconds - lower is better

    WinRAR 4.0

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      3363.5
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      3100

    MB/s - higher is better

    x264 Pass 1

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      177
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      174.5

    FPS - higher is better

    x264 Pass 2

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      68.7
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      36.1

    FPS - higher is better

    TrueCrypt AES

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      6
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      2.9

    GB/s

    TrueCrypt Twofish

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      1
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      0.48

    GB/s

    TrueCrypt Serpent

    • AMD Ryzen 5 1600
      0.65
    • Intel Core i5-6500
      0.29

    GB/s

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