Intel Core i7-5960X vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U

Compare Intel Core X-series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 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

5654 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6552 points

7570 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5074 points

0.46% slightly better multitasking score

5051 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4955 points

0.67% slightly better heavy workload score

4922 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.38 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

133.69 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7412 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5700 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1302 points

1590 points

22% slightly 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

49% significantly higher clock speed

2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

4.5 GHz

28% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

15 W

833% 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

281st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2014 August

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1600

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-5960X vs Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U is faster than the Core i7-5960X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5960X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5960X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5875U 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.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-5960X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.