Comparison of AMD Ryzen 5 2500X and Intel Core i7-6850K

Attribute	Intel Core i7-6850K ×	AMD Ryzen 5 2500X ×
General Information
Brand	Intel	AMD
Series	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition	AMD Ryzen
Model	Intel Core i7-6850K	AMD Ryzen 5 2500X
CPU Cores and Base Frequency
CPU Cores	6	4
Frequency (GHz)	3.6	3.6
CPU Threads	12	8
Core architecture	normal	normal
Hyperthreading	+	+
Overclocking	+	+
Turbo (1 Core) (GHz)	3.8	4
Turbo (4 Cores) (GHz)	-	3.8
Encryption
AES-NI	+	+
Hardware codec support
JPEG	No	No
h264	No	No
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)	No	No
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)	No	No
VP8	No	No
AV1	No	No
VC-1	No	No
VP9	No	No
AVC	No	No
Memory And PCIe
Memory type	DDR4-2133DDR4-2400	DDR4-2933
Max. Memory (GB)	128	64
PCIe lanes	40	20
PCIe version	3.0	3.0
ECC	-	+
Memory channels	4	2
Technical details
Release date (year)	2016	2018
Technology (Nm)	14	12
Socket	LGA 2011-3	AM4
Virtualization	vt-d vt-x vt-x ept	amd-v sev
L3-Cache (MB)	15	16
Architecture	Broadwell E	Zen+ (Pinnacle Ridge)
Instruction set (ISA)	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
Thermal Management
Temp junction max (°C)	100	95
TDP (PL1) (W)	140	95
Benchmarks
iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)	403	-
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)	998	988
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)	5,986	3,755
Blender 2.81 (bmw27)	279.7	-
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)	-	1,028