Intel Core i5 6600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X

older Released July, 2015

Intel Core i5 6600K

3.5 GHz
Quad core
Unlocked

rumored First seen on April, 2017

Reasons to buy the AMD Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X

	Much more l2 cache 3 MB		Significantly more l3 cache 16 MB
	Much higher Maximum operating temperature 95 °C		More threads 12

Thanks for adding your opinion. Follow us on Facebook to stay up to date with the latest news!

Reasons to consider the
Intel Core i5 6600K

Report a correction

CPUBoss is not aware of any important advantages of the Intel Core i5 6600K vs the AMD Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X.

Front view of AMD Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X

Reasons to consider the
AMD Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X

Report a correction

Much more l2 cache

3 MB

1 MB

3x more l2 cache; more data can be stored in the l2 cache for quick access later

Significantly more l3 cache

16 MB

6 MB

Around 2.8x more l3 cache; more data can be stored in the l3 cache for quick access later

Much higher Maximum operating temperature

95 °C

64 °C

Around 50% higher Maximum operating temperature

More threads

Three times as many threads

Much more l3 cache per core

2.67 MB/core

1.5 MB/core

Around 80% more l3 cache per core

More cores

2 more cores; run more applications at once

More l2 cache per core

0.5 MB/core

0.25 MB/core

2x more l2 cache per core

clock speed

Core i5 6600K

3.5 GHz

Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X

3.6 GHz

turbo clock speed

Core i5 6600K

3.9 GHz

Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X

4 GHz

L2 cache

Core i5 6600K

1 MB

Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X

3 MB

L3 cache

Core i5 6600K

6 MB

Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X

16 MB

summary	Core i5 6600K	Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X
Clock speed	3.5 GHz	3.6 GHz
Turbo clock speed	3.9 GHz	4 GHz
Cores	Quad core	Hexa core
Is unlocked	Yes	Yes
features
Has virtualization support	Yes	Yes
Instruction set extensions
SSE2
MMX
SSE4
AVX
SSE3
SSE
SSE4.1
FMA3
SSE4.2
Supplemental SSE3
AES
AVX 2.0

details	Core i5 6600K	Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X
Threads	4	12
L2 cache	1 MB	3 MB
L2 cache per core	0.25 MB/core	0.5 MB/core
L3 cache	6 MB	16 MB
L3 cache per core	1.5 MB/core	2.67 MB/core
Manufacture process	14 nm	14 nm
Operating temperature	Unknown - 64°C	Unknown - 95°C
power consumption
Typical power consumption	73.94W	N/A

Intel Core i5 6600K

Report a correction

AMD Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X

Report a correction

Compare

Popular Comparisons

Comments

Showing 5 comments.

Riviera (08:30 PM, January 12, 2018)

Missing out? How about IOMMU, AMD-V, not to mention ECC support (if you're into that sorta thing). Oh, and then there's the whole thing where AMD isn't remotely vulnerable to the Intel meltdown low-level CPU breach.

Try Knight (06:53 PM, December 13, 2017)

One reason I would rather get the i5 is if i was doing emulation. For emulators like cemu AMD is barley supported

cynox (10:32 AM, October 3, 2017)

http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Zen/AMD-Ryzen%205%201600X.html false claim. those technologies and even more are supported on amd ryzen

Chris (10:25 AM, June 16, 2017)

Yes but with Intel you are also getting all of the technologies that are lacking in amd. There is more to look at on a cpu the. Raw specs, however this is quite a tempting offer xD

Alcatraz Svk (12:33 PM, May 10, 2017)

i5-6600K - 239,99$ r5-1600X - 249,99$ 10$ for more l2 & l3 cache + more cores|threads..

	VS
$250		$350
6600K vs 6700K

	VS
$250		$240
6600K vs 4690K

	VS
$250		$272
6600K vs 4790K

	VS
$250		$230
6600K vs 6600

	VS
$250		$128
6600K vs 8350

	VS
$250		$305
6600K vs 4790

	VS
$250		$220
6600K vs 2500K

	VS
$305		$300
W3520 vs 2500

	VS
$272		$350
4790K vs 6700K

	VS
$281
4200U vs 6410

	VS
$134		$225
847 vs 3217U

	VS
$281
6200U vs 7th Gen A9-9410

	VS
$180
3470 vs 5200

	VS
$275		$161
4005U vs N3540

Intel Core i5 6600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 Ryzen™ 5 1600X