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General information Ryzen 5 1600X Core i5-6500
Launched Q2 2017 Q3 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA1151
Series Name AMD Ryzen 5 Intel Core i5
Core Family Name Summit Ridge Skylake-S
Clock 3.6 GHz 0 % 3.2 GHz 11.1 %
Turbo Clock 4 GHz 0 % 3.6 GHz 10 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 4 66.7 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 65 W 31.6 %
Lithography 14 nm 0 % 14 nm 0 %
L1 Cache 6 × 32 kB Data
6 × 64 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Instruction
4 × 32 kB Data
L2 Cache 6 × 512 kB
4 × 256 kB
L3 Cache 2 × 8 MB
1 × 6 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes No
Performance Ryzen 5 1600X Core i5-6500
Overall Score 54042 0 % 43791 19 %
Future Proof 59 % 0 % 49 % 16.9 %
Benchmark Score 8530 0 % 3678 56.9 %
Single Thread Score 2188 0 % 2119.4 3.1 %
Encrypting Data 12526.4 MB/s 0 % 1667.3 MB/s 86.7 %
Compressing Data 178.5 MB/s 0 % 75.9 MB/s 57.5 %
String objects sorting 21851 thousand/s 0 % 9493 thousand/s 56.6 %
Prime numbers generation 35.3 millions/s 0 % 27.9 millions/s 20.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 44497.8 millions/s 0 % 14778.5 millions/s 66.8 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 23170.1 millions/s 0 % 12519.3 millions/s 46 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 1600X, Core i5-6500.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 1600X Core i5-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 114.7 FPS 84.4 FPS
High settings 183.6 FPS 135.0 FPS
Medium settings 229.5 FPS 168.8 FPS
Low settings 286.8 FPS 211.0 FPS
Difference 0 % 26.4 %

Grand Theft Auto V Frames per second

Comparison of FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) in game 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Grand Theft Auto V.

Grand Theft Auto V Ryzen 5 1600X Core i5-6500
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 145.5 FPS 127.4 FPS
High settings 232.9 FPS 203.9 FPS
Medium settings 291.1 FPS 254.9 FPS
Low settings 363.8 FPS 318.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.4 %
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