UserBenchmark: AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs Intel Core i7-6900K

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Best Bench: 98% Base clock 4.1 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 76% Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 1.2 GHz (avg)

Poor: 76% Great: 98%

SPEED RANK: 171^st / 1442

Gaming 86%

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Desktop 86%

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Workstation 83%

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6,311 User Benchmarks

Best Bench: 120% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 101% Base clock 4.7 GHz, turbo 5.2 GHz (avg)

Poor: 101% Great: 120%

SPEED RANK: 41^st / 1442

Gaming 110%

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Desktop 113%

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Workstation 106%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		85.9 %			110 %	Faster effective speed. +29%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	87.3 Pts	Slightly lower memory latency. +7%	81.7 Pts
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	114 Pts		202 Pts	Much faster single-core speed. +77%
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	228 Pts		392 Pts	Much faster dual-core speed. +72%
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	454 Pts		746 Pts	Much faster quad-core speed. +64%
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	819 Pts		1166 Pts	Much faster octa-core speed. +42%


Memory OC Memory Latency	95.9 Pts	Slightly lower OC memory latency. +5%	91.2 Pts
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	138 Pts		213 Pts	Much faster OC single-core speed. +54%
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	276 Pts		419 Pts	Much faster OC dual-core speed. +52%
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	545 Pts		821 Pts	Much faster OC quad-core speed. +51%
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	985 Pts		1254 Pts	Faster OC octa-core speed. +27%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.02 %		0.29 %	Insanely higher market share. +1,350%
Value Value For Money	108 %		122 %	Better value. +13%
User Rating UBM User Rating	52 %		82 %	Much more popular. +58%
Price Price (score)	$120	Much cheaper. +38%	$195


Age Newest	94 Months		19 Months	Much more recent. +80%
TDP Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watts		105 Watts	More energy efficient. +25%
Cores CPU Processing Cores	8 cores	Much higher core count. +33%	6 cores
Threads CPU Processing Threads	16 threads	Much higher thread count. +33%	12 threads
Lithography Manufacturing process	14 nm		5 nm	Much newer manufacturing. +64%
Base Clock Base Clock Speed	3.2 GHz		4.7 GHz	Much faster base frequency. +47%
Turbo Clock Turbo Clock Speed	4 GHz		5.3 GHz	Much faster turbo frequency. +33%
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	1428 Pts		1504 Pts	Slightly faster OC 64-core speed. +5%
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	1206 Pts		1429 Pts	Faster 64-core speed. +18%


Series CPU Architecture	Broadwell-E	Zen4
Socket Motherboard Socket	LGA2011-V3	AM5
Graphics Integrated Graphics	None	RDNA2

The Core i7-6900K is one of four new Broadwell-E prosumer CPUs. This model has eight cores with base and turbo frequencies of 3.2 and 4.0 GHz respectively. The 6900K is based on a 14 nm architecture, it has a TDP of 140 watts, 40 PCIe 3.0 lanes and no integrated graphics. Because of its MSRP of $1,100, the 6900K only makes sense for very niche use cases which include top end graphics design and video production. Comparing the 6900K and 6700K shows that for typical desktop use the 6900K only offers a gain of around 12% for a whopping three fold price increase. This is because desktop computing largely depends on single core performance and the Skylake i7-6700K is both clocked higher and has higher IPC due to its one generation lead over the 6900K. That said, as a workstation CPU the 6900K is bested only by the $2,000 flagship ten core 6950X. (6900K vs 6950X) ^{[Jun '16 CPUPro]}

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Within minutes of the first, pre-release, 7000 series userbenchmark results, AMD’s marketers broadcast a 20% win over the 12900K via thousands of anonymous twitter, reddit, forum and youtube accounts. Buying new AMD products is like buying used cars: it takes time, experience and a taste for sales hype. It’s difficult for consumers to make rational choices while AMD completely dominates “sponsored news” and social media channels. Ten years ago, when AMD was the underdog, this type of marketing was understandable. Today, with a capitalization of $150 Billion USD, it’s disrespectful to AMD's own users. Even with Intel's marketing department asleep at the wheel, Ryzen will quickly end up in the same state as Radeon. Following a series of overhyped releases, consumers have little interest in the Radeon brand. The combined market share for all of AMD’s (discrete) Radeon RX 5000 and 6000 GPUs (Steam stats) is just 2%. Although the new 7000 series Zen4 CPUs are actually around 15% faster than their predecessors, they have hefty cooling requirements (TDP +60% vs 5000 series), 30 second BIOS post times, expensive DDR5 RAM requirements and only work with expensive motherboards. Despite the 7000 series struggling to match Intel’s outgoing 12th gen, AMD market it as a “future proof” platform! They want users to pay a premium for last gen performance in exchange for the shallow promise of upgrades in the future. Over the next few days, Intel’s 13th gen (Raptor Lake) will launch. Shoppers will do well to wait until then. Despite AMD’s Neanderthal marketing techniques, it’s hard not to admire their technical progress. AMD-Raptor4 and Intel-Zen13 would be better fitting product names. ^{[Sep '22 CPUPro]}

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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