Intel Core i7-6950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U

Compare Intel Core X-series 10 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4000 Series Mobile 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 758.40
$ 970.60 significantly less expensive
$ 1729.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5504 points
9% slightly better overall score
5013 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6279 points
6522 points
3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5261 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
4528 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5214 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score
4398 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.36 points
67% significantly higher Blender score
110.98 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7553 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5357 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1192 points
1385 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8892 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5139 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1370 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1352 points

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
76% significantly higher clock speed
1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz
4.1 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

140 W
15 W
833% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2.5 MiB
4 MiB
60% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

25 MiB
212% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

293rd of 1,089
347th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 7 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 i7-6950X vs Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-6950X performs better than the Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-6950X has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6950X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6950X. Despite this, the Core i7-6950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 4750U.

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

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