Intel Core i7-5960X vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition

Core i7-5960X vs Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5960X beats the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 6800HS Creator Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-5960X.

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.