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General information Ryzen 5 2600X Core i7-6700K
Launched Q2 2018 Q3 2015
Used in Desktop Desktop
Factory AMD Intel
Socket AM4 LGA1151
Series Name AMD Ryzen 5 Intel Core i7
Core Family Name Pinnacle Ridge Skylake-S
Clock 3.6 GHz 10 % 4 GHz 0 %
Turbo Clock 4.2 GHz 0 % 4.2 GHz 0 %
Cores 6 0 % 4 33.3 %
Threads 12 0 % 8 33.3 %
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 95 W 0 % 95 W 0 %
Maximum supported RAM 64 GB 0 % 64 GB 0 %
Lithography 12 nm 14.3 % 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 1 × 15 MB
1 × 8 MB
ECC Supported No No
Multithreading Supported Yes Yes
Performance Ryzen 5 2600X Core i7-6700K
Overall Score 54904 0 % 49142 10.5 %
Future Proof 65 % 0 % 49 % 24.6 %
Benchmark Score 9087 0 % 5832 35.8 %
Single Thread Score 2399.3 3.9 % 2497.5 0 %
Encrypting Data 13156.4 MB/s 0 % 3086.5 MB/s 76.5 %
Compressing Data 195 MB/s 0 % 123.1 MB/s 36.9 %
String objects sorting 23056 thousand/s 0 % 15996.2 thousand/s 30.6 %
Prime numbers generation 38.2 millions/s 0 % 30.2 millions/s 20.9 %
Mathemathic operations (integer) 47292.4 millions/s 0 % 28319.9 millions/s 40.1 %
Mathemathic operations (float) 24433.6 millions/s 0 % 17230.5 millions/s 29.5 %

Comparison of average FPS

Comparison of average FPS count by settings on resolution 1920 × 1080 (FHD (1080p)) for Ryzen 5 2600X, Core i7-6700K.

Average frames per second Ryzen 5 2600X Core i7-6700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 117.3 FPS 100.2 FPS
High settings 187.7 FPS 160.4 FPS
Medium settings 234.6 FPS 200.5 FPS
Low settings 293.3 FPS 250.6 FPS
Difference 0 % 14.6 %

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 2600X Core i7-6700K
Screen resolution: 1920 × 1080 pixels   Change
Ultra settings 147.1 FPS 136.9 FPS
High settings 235.3 FPS 219.0 FPS
Medium settings 294.1 FPS 273.8 FPS
Low settings 367.6 FPS 342.2 FPS
Difference 0 % 6.9 %
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