Intel Core i7-5960X vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE

Core i7-5960X vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5960X beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE 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 PRO 4650GE. Indeed, the Core i7-5960X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5960X. Also, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650GE 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.