AMD Ryzen 7 5800H vs Intel Core i7-6500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i7 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5963 points
356% significantly better overall score
1306 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7413 points
188% significantly better gaming score
2566 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5498 points
464% significantly better multitasking score
974 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5377 points
475% significantly better heavy workload score
934 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

161.72 points
570% significantly higher Blender score
24.12 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6868 points
318% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1641 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1714 points
138% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
719 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
300% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
300% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
28% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
41% slightly higher turbo speed
3.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

251st of 1,089
870th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile
6th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 5800H vs Core i7-6500U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800H is faster than the Core i7-6500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6500U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800H has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6500U. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800H has 8 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6500U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6500U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-6500U. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-6500U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 7 5800H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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