Intel Core i7-870 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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

$ 163.04
$ 74.99
$ 88.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1923 points
5932 points
208% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3090 points
7972 points
157% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1576 points
5268 points
234% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1513 points
5102 points
237% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

37.74 points
141.88 points
275% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1563 points
7589 points
385% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

485 points
1833 points
277% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1550 points
7653 points
393% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

475 points
1872 points
294% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.93 GHz
3.6 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.2 GHz
16% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

732nd of 1,089
256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 August
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-870 vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Core i7-870. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-870 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-870. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-870. It also has more threads than the Core i7-870. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-870. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Core i7-870 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i7-870 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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