AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 vs Intel Core i7 X 990

Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 vs Core i7 X 990 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 is faster than the Core i7 X 990. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7 X 990 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 PRO 1500. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7 X 990. In terms of cache, the Core i7 X 990 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 1500

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 1500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.