Intel Core i7-6950X vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

Core i7-6950X vs Ryzen 5 6600H comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6950X beats the Ryzen 5 6600H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 6600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-6950X has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 6600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 6600H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6950X. Also, the Ryzen 5 6600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 6600H outputs less heat than Core i7-6950X 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 6600H has slightly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6950X. Despite this, the Core i7-6950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 6600H.

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 i7-6950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.