Intel Core i9-7940X vs AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Compare Intel Core X-series 14 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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AMD Ryzen 5 4500

Price

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$ 300.00

$ 68.37

$ 231.63 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5222 points

5312 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6170 points

7287 points

18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4938 points

5% slightly better multitasking score

4672 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4896 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

4523 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

261.54 points

110% significantly higher Blender score

124.29 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10511 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6235 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1444 points

1560 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.6 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W

65 W

153% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

896 KiB

133% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

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

324th of 1,089

309th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-7940X vs Ryzen 5 4500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 4500 performs better than the Core i9-7940X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7940X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 4500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 4500. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 4500 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7940X. Despite this, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 4500 outputs less heat than Core i9-7940X 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 i9-7940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.