Intel Core i7-6850K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500H

Core i7-6850K vs Ryzen 5 5500H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6850K beats the Ryzen 5 5500H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-6850K has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6850K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500H outputs less heat than Core i7-6850K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5500H has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6850K. Despite this, the Core i7-6850K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5500H.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-6850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.