Intel Core i7-5820K vs AMD Ryzen Z2 Go

Core i7-5820K vs Ryzen Z2 Go comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen Z2 Go is faster than the Core i7-5820K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5820K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-5820K has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen Z2 Go that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen Z2 Go. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5820K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen Z2 Go. Despite this, the Ryzen Z2 Go has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen Z2 Go outputs less heat than Core i7-5820K 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 i7-5820K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.