Intel Core i7-6850K vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile 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

4208 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5576 points

6127 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3611 points

3638 points

0.75% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3510 points

3518 points

0.23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

103.26 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

94.21 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5746 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5599 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1278 points

1594 points

24% slightly 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

56% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.2 GHz

10% 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

16 MiB

6% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

429th of 1,089

420th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 5 PRO 5000 Series Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-6850K vs Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6850K is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount 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 5650U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U 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 PRO 5650U has more L2 cache than the Core i7-6850K. The Ryzen 5 PRO 5650U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.