Product Compare

AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D vs Intel Core i5 6600

	CPU AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D	CPU Intel Core i5 6600
General Parameters
Release Date	Jan 2025	Sep 2015
Manufacturer	Amd	Intel
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Zen 5 (Granite Ridge)	Skylake
Processor Number	9900X3D	i5-6600
Integrated Graphics	Radeon Graphics	HD Graphics 530
Generation	Ryzen 9 (Zen 5 (Granite Ridge))
Series	Ryzen 9000 Series
Package
Transistor Count	16.63 billions	1.75 billions
Manufacturing Process	4 nm	14 nm
Socket	AM5	LGA-1151
Power Consumption	120 W	65 W
Max Turbo Power Consumption	230 W
Peak Operating Temperature	95 °C
Foundry	TSMC
Die Size	2x70.6 mm²
I/O Process Size	6 nm
I/O Die Size	122 mm²
Package	FC-LGA1718
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	12	4
Performance Core Threads	24	4
Performance Core Base Frequency	4.4 GHz	3.3 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	5.5 GHz	3.9 GHz
Total Core Count	12	4
Total Thread Count	24	4
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	43	33x
L1 Cache	80 K per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	1 MB per core	256 K per core
L3 Cache	128 MB shared	6 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
SMP	1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-5600	DDR4-2133, DDR3L-1600
Max Memory Size	192 GB	64 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	89.6 GB/s	34.1 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	Yes	No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true	true
GPU Base Frequency	400 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	2200 MHz	1150 MHz
Shader Units	128
Texture Units	8
Raster Operation Units	4
Execution Units	2
Power Consumption	15
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	5.0	3.0
PCIe Lanes	28	16
Extended Instruction Set		SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	2258	1042
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	34524	3810
Geekbench 6 Single Core	3351	1215
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	21364	3041
Passmark CPU Single Core	4651	2246
Passmark CPU Multi Core	56185	5989