Intel Core i7-6700HQ vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 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

2465 points

3137 points

27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3937 points

4530 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2027 points

2722 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1949 points

2633 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

56.39 points

86.82 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3434 points

5816 points

69% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1099 points

1691 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.6 GHz

30% slightly 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

45 W

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

635th of 1,089

519th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6700HQ vs Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U beats the Core i7-6700HQ in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6700HQ in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-6700HQ that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700HQ. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6700HQ has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U.

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 i7-6700HQ has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.