Intel Core i7-960 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 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

1995 points

3147 points

57% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3216 points

4989 points

55% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1629 points

2595 points

59% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1563 points

2494 points

59% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.27 points

64.47 points

99% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1672 points

3685 points

120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

492 points

1171 points

138% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

2.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.46 GHz

4.3 GHz

24% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

130 W

15 W

766% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

49% significantly more memory channels

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

719th of 1,089

518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2009 November

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066

LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-960 vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7520U beats the Core i7-960 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-960 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-960 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7520U.

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 i7-960 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.