Intel Core i9-9820X vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Core i9-9820X vs Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H beats the Core i9-9820X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9820X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9820X has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. Indeed, the Core i9-9820X has 10 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9820X. Also, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H outputs less heat than Core i9-9820X 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 i9-9820X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.