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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 53916 0 % 43686 19 %
Future Proof 59 % 0 % 49 % 16.9 %
Benchmark Score 8450 0 % 3642 56.9 %
Single Thread Score 2192.4 0 % 2100.5 4.2 %
Encrypting Data 12640.8 MB/s 0 % 1672.3 MB/s 86.8 %
Compressing Data 176.9 MB/s 0 % 75.5 MB/s 57.3 %
String objects sorting 21851 thousand/s 0 % 9394.2 thousand/s 57 %
Prime numbers generation 35.1 millions/s 0 % 28 millions/s 20.2 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 44723.8 millions/s 0 % 14599.1 millions/s 67.4 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 22802.9 millions/s 0 % 12330.5 millions/s 45.9 %

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 114.8 FPS 84.4 FPS
High settings 183.7 FPS 135.1 FPS
Medium settings 229.6 FPS 168.9 FPS
Low settings 287.0 FPS 211.1 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 145.4 FPS 127.3 FPS
High settings 232.7 FPS 203.8 FPS
Medium settings 290.8 FPS 254.7 FPS
Low settings 363.5 FPS 318.4 FPS
Difference 0 % 12.4 %
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