Intel Core i7-5930K vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile 6 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

3870 points

4208 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5431 points

6127 points

12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3361 points

3638 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3246 points

3518 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

98.86 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

94.21 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5677 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5599 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1222 points

1594 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

15 W

833% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

448th of 1,089

420th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-5930K vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5930K beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5930K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U outputs less heat than Core i7-5930K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.