Intel Core i7-6500U vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Core i7-6500U vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D is faster than the Core i7-6500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i7-6500U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6500U. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-6500U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU because of its 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 i7-6500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.