Intel Core i7-3930K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500H

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3669 points

3827 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4984 points

6332 points

27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3245 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

3095 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3138 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

2970 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

70.18 points

78.11 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2984 points

4230 points

41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

616 points

1535 points

149% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.30 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

45 W

188% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

466th of 1,089

450th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 November

2023 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

DDR4-3200

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-3930K vs Ryzen 5 5500H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500H is faster than the Core i7-3930K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-3930K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-3930K has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-3930K. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500H outputs less heat than Core i7-3930K thanks to a significantly 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 i7-3930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.