AMD Ryzen 5 3450U vs Intel Core i7-5820K

Ryzen 5 3450U vs Core i7-5820K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-5820K beats the Ryzen 5 3450U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3450U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i7-5820K has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3450U. Indeed, the Core i7-5820K has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3450U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3450U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5820K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3450U. A Ryzen 5 3450U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5820K CPU because of its 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 Ryzen 5 3450U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.