Intel Core i9-7940X vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G

Compare Intel Core X-series 14 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 300.00
$ 199.00 significantly less expensive
$ 499.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5222 points
5333 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6170 points
7406 points
20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4938 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
4663 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4896 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score
4507 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

261.54 points
104% significantly higher Blender score
127.97 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9233 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6221 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1299 points
1526 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10511 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6107 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1444 points
1564 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

14
133% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

28
133% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.70 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 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

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

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
308th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 5 PRO 4000 Series Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 August
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i9-7940X vs Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-7940X is faster than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7940X. Despite this, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 4650G 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.

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 i9-7940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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