AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i7 6700

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AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

Intel Core i7 6700

We compared two desktop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 3500X with 6 cores 3.6GHz and Intel Core i7 6700 with 4 cores 3.4GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 2133)

Larger memory bandwidth (51.2GB/s vs 34.1GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3.0)

Higher base frequency (3.6GHz vs 3.4GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (32MB vs 8MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 14nm)

Intel Core i7 6700 's Advantages

Integrated graphics card

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X +9%

1166

Intel Core i7 6700

1063

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X +38%

6717

Intel Core i7 6700

4841

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X +18%

1650

Intel Core i7 6700

1388

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X +41%

6523

Intel Core i7 6700

4622

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

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Intel Core i7 6700

General Parameters

Sep 2019

Release Date

Sep 2015

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Desktop

Type

Desktop

-

Instruction Set

x86-64

Matisse

Core Architecture

Skylake

-

Processor Number

i7-6700

AMD Socket AM4

Socket

LGA-1151

N/A

Integrated Graphics

HD Graphics 530

Ryzen 5 (Zen 2 (Matisse))

Generation

-

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

-

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

65 W

Power Consumption

65 W

95 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

-

TSMC

Foundry

-

74 mm²

Die Size

-

12 nm

I/O Process Size

-

124 mm²

I/O Die Size

-

CPU Performance

-

Performance Cores

4

-

Performance Core Threads

8

3.6 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.4 GHz

4.1 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4 GHz

6

Total Core Count

4

6

Total Thread Count

8

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

36.0

Multiplier

34

64 KB per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

512 KB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

32 MB shared

L3 Cache

8 MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

No

1

SMP

-

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR4-2133,DDR3L-1600

-

Max Memory Size

64 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

2

51.2 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

34.1 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

-

Integrated Graphics

true

-

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

1150 MHz

1.18 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

-

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

Official Website

Intel Core i7 6700

4

PCIe Version

3.0

24

PCIe Lanes

16

-

Extended Instruction Set

SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2

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