Intel Core i7-5930K vs AMD Ryzen 3 5425U

Core i7-5930K vs Ryzen 3 5425U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-5930K performs better than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Despite this, the Ryzen 3 5425U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-5930K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Indeed, the Core i7-5930K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 3 5425U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 5425U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5930K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 5425U.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-5930K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.