AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i7 6850K

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We compared two desktop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 3500X with 6 cores 3.6GHz and Intel Core i7 6850K with 6 cores 3.6GHz . 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 3 years and 4 months late

Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR4-2133)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3.0)

Larger L3 cache size (32MB vs 15MB)

Lower TDP (65W vs 140W)

Intel Core i7 6850K 's Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X +19%

1166

Intel Core i7 6850K

979

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

6717

Intel Core i7 6850K +8%

7282

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X +67%

1650

Intel Core i7 6850K

986

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X +68%

6523

Intel Core i7 6850K

3877

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

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Intel Core i7 6850K

General Parameters

Sep 2019

Release Date

May 2016

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Desktop

Type

Desktop

-

Instruction Set

x86-64

Matisse

Core Architecture

Broadwell E

-

Processor Number

i7-6850K

AMD Socket AM4

Socket

LGA-2011-3

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Ryzen 5 (Zen 2 (Matisse))

Generation

-

Package

3.8 billions

Transistor Count

-

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

AMD Socket AM4

Socket

LGA-2011-3

65 W

Power Consumption

140 W

95 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

-

TSMC

Foundry

-

74 mm²

Die Size

-

12 nm

I/O Process Size

-

124 mm²

I/O Die Size

-

µOPGA-1331

Package

-

CPU Performance

-

Performance Cores

6

-

Performance Core Threads

12

3.6 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.6 GHz

4.1 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.8 GHz

6

Total Core Count

6

Total Thread Count

12

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

-

36.0

Multiplier

36x

64 KB per core

L1 Cache

32 K per core

512 KB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

32 MB shared

L3 Cache

15 MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

No

1

SMP

-

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR4-2133

-

Max Memory Size

128 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

4

51.2 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

76.8 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

1.18 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

-

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

Official Website

Intel Core i7 6850K

4

PCIe Version

3.0

24

PCIe Lanes

40

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