Intel Core i7-5960X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7535U

Core i7-5960X vs Ryzen 5 7535U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5960X beats the Ryzen 5 7535U in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7535U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-5960X has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7535U. Indeed, the Core i7-5960X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7535U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7535U. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5960X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7535U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7535U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7535U 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.

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 i7-5960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.