Intel Core i7-930 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

$ 307.29
$ 74.99
$ 232.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1941 points
5931 points
205% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3145 points
7969 points
153% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1583 points
5267 points
232% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1519 points
5102 points
235% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

28.18 points
141.88 points
403% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1490 points
7589 points
409% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

432 points
1833 points
324% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1449 points
7653 points
428% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

425 points
1872 points
340% 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

2.8 GHz
3.6 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.06 GHz
4.2 GHz
37% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W
65 W
100% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

3
49% significantly more memory channels
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

729th 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

2010 February
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 i7-930 vs Ryzen 5 5500 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5500 is faster than the Core i7-930. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-930 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-930 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-930. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-930. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Core i7-930 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i7-930 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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