Intel Core i7-7800X vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Compare Intel Core X-series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 8 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

4493 points

4640 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5755 points

6078 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4089 points

4227 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3970 points

4149 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

110.00 points

119.67 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5789 points

6258 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1269 points

1694 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6131 points

6151 points

0.33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1344 points

1677 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

84% significantly higher clock speed

1.90 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.4 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

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 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

391st of 1,089

376th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2021 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2400

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-7800X vs Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U is faster than the Core i7-7800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7800X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i7-7800X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-7800X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-7800X 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 i7-7800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-7800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.