Intel Core i7-5960X vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Core i7-5960X vs Ryzen 5 4500 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5960X beats the Ryzen 5 4500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 4500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-5960X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 4500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 4500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5960X. Also, the Ryzen 5 4500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 4500 outputs less heat than Core i7-5960X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-5960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.