Intel Core i7-6850K vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

4066 points

6306 points

55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5576 points

8479 points

52% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3611 points

5619 points

55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3510 points

5454 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

103.26 points

163.82 points

58% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5746 points

9274 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1278 points

2302 points

80% significantly 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

3.6 GHz

4.30 GHz

19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

5 GHz

31% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W

54 W

159% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

6 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

15 MiB

16 MiB

6% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

429th of 1,089

235th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6850K vs Ryzen 5 7640HS comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6850K performs better than the Ryzen 5 7640HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7640HS in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6850K. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640HS 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 7640HS has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6850K. The Ryzen 5 7640HS also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.