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    AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Core i7-6700

    AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
    3000 MHz / Cores: 8 / Mar 2017
    AMD Ryzen 7 1700
    Intel Core i7-6700
    Intel Socket 1151DESKTOP
    3400 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jul 2015
    Intel Core i7-6700

    Summary

    Synthetic performance index

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      125%
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      100%

    Relative performance

    Single thread performance index

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      100%
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      121%

    Relative performance

    Multi thread performance index

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      141%
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      100%

    Relative performance

    Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 7 1700

    Much higher multi threaded performance (around 41% 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 25% higher average synthetic performance.

    Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-6700

    Much higher single threaded performance (around 21% higher), makes a noticeable performance difference in gaming and the majority of applications.
    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 i7-6700
    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
    vPro
    Boost 2.0

    Architecture

    AMD Ryzen 7 1700Intel Core i7-6700
    ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Skylake
    MarketDesktopvsDesktop
    Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
    CodenameZenvsSkylake
    Release DateMar 2017vsJul 2015

    Cores

    AMD Ryzen 7 1700Intel Core i7-6700
    Cores8vs4
    Threads16vs8
    SMPs1vs1
    Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

    Cache

    AMD Ryzen 7 1700Intel Core i7-6700
    L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
    L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
    L3 Cache16384 KB (shared)vs8192 KB (shared)

    Physical

    AMD Ryzen 7 1700Intel Core i7-6700
    SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 1151
    Max Case Tempunknownvs72°C
    PackageuPGAvs
    Die Size192mm²vsunknown
    Process14 nmvs14 nm

    Performance

    AMD Ryzen 7 1700Intel Core i7-6700
    Cpu Frequency3000 MHzvs3400 MHz
    Turbo Clock3700 MHzvs4000 MHz
    Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
    Voltageunknownvsunknown
    TDP65 Wvs65 W

    Raw performance index

    Raw single-thread performance estimation

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      4070 points
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      4600 points

    Points - higher is better

    Raw multi-thread performance estimation

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      32208 points
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      18924 points

    Points - higher is better

    Synthetic benchmarks

    Rendering: LuxMark CPU OpenCL

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      2839
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      2323

    points - higher is better

    Rendering: LuxMark CPU C++

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      3597
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      2565

    points - higher is better

    Rendering: POV-Ray 3.7

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      2945
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      1748

    points per second - higher is better

    3DMark06 CPU

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      8335
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      8478

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R10 32Bit Single

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      4531
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      6002.5

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R10 32Bit Multi

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      29167.5
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      24304.5

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R11.5 CPU Single 64Bit

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      1.67
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      1.93

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R11.5 64Bit

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      15.63
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      8.86

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      147
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      168.5

    points - higher is better

    Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      1415
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      802

    points - higher is better

    SuperPI 1M

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      11.4
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      9.65

    seconds - lower is better

    wPrime 32

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      6
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      6.8

    seconds - lower is better

    WinRAR 4.0

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      3530
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      5412.5

    MB/s - higher is better

    x264 Pass 1

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      147
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      187.4

    FPS - higher is better

    x264 Pass 2

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      67
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      50.8

    FPS - higher is better

    TrueCrypt AES

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      8.4
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      4.45

    GB/s

    TrueCrypt Twofish

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      1.3
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      0.78

    GB/s

    TrueCrypt Serpent

    • AMD Ryzen 7 1700
      0.82
    • Intel Core i7-6700
      0.46

    GB/s

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