Intel Core i7-5960X vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Compare Intel Core X-series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 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

5462 points

5821 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6552 points

7228 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5074 points

5452 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4955 points

5384 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.38 points

166.92 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7412 points

9022 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1302 points

2060 points

58% significantly 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 GHz

3.30 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

5.1 GHz

45% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

28 W

400% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

298th of 1,089

266th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-5960X vs Ryzen 7 8840HS benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 8840HS performs better than the Core i7-5960X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5960X 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 Ryzen 7 8840HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-5960X.

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.