Intel Core i7-6850K vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 85.00
$ 614.77 significantly less expensive
$ 699.77

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4066 points
4132 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5576 points
5983 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3611 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
3549 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3510 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score
3422 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

103.26 points
14% slightly higher Blender score
89.80 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5539 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4683 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1210 points
1316 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5746 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4568 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1278 points
1316 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
71% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
15 W
833% significantly lower TDP

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
3 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

15 MiB
87% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

429th of 1,089
425th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-6850K vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U performs better than the Core i7-6850K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6850K in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6850K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6850K. Despite this, the Core i7-6850K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650U.

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 i7-6850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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