AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i7-1195G7

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i7-1195G7 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600X beats the Core i7-1195G7 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1195G7 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-1195G7 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1195G7. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1195G7. Despite this, the Core i7-1195G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1195G7 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600X 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 Ryzen 5 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.