Intel Core i5-650 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 66.40
$ 146.59 significantly less expensive
$ 212.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1013 points
7399 points
630% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2051 points
8984 points
338% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

747 points
6877 points
820% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

716 points
6735 points
840% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.60 points
207.23 points
1228% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

908 points
9632 points
960% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

458 points
2079 points
353% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

943 points
9706 points
929% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points
2147 points
367% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
8
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.40 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.46 GHz
4.6 GHz
32% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

73 W
65 W
12% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

943rd of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Core i5-650 vs Ryzen 7 5700X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5700X performs better than the Core i5-650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-650 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-650 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-650. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-650. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Core i5-650 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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