AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i7-6950X

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i7-6950X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i7-6950X beats the Ryzen 5 5600H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-6950X has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6950X. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-6950X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5600H has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-6950X. Despite this, the Core i7-6950X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 5600H.

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 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.