Intel Core i7-6950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5504 points
5728 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6279 points
7427 points
18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5261 points
5269 points
0.15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5214 points
0.56% slightly better heavy workload score
5185 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.36 points
11% slightly higher Blender score
166.92 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8892 points
9022 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1370 points
2060 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

10
25% slightly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

20
25% slightly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.30 GHz
10% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
5.1 GHz
45% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
28 W
400% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
8 MiB
220% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
56% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

293rd of 1,089
272nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400
DDR5 (FP7r2)

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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