Intel Core i7-5960X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Core i7-5960X vs Ryzen 9 9955HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5960X beats the Ryzen 9 9955HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9955HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-5960X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-5960X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5960X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX 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.