Intel Core i7-6850K vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Core i7-6850K vs Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6850K beats the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has slightly more cores than the Core i7-6850K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Core i7-6850K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6850K. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-6850K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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 7 PRO 5850U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6850K. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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.