AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Intel Core i7-5960X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 8 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

4592 points

5462 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5621 points

6552 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4259 points

5074 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4166 points

4955 points

18% slightly better heavy workload score

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8386 points

8668 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.39 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

141.38 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

3 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

35 W

300% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

382nd of 1,089

298th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Mobile

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2014 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-1600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Core i7-5960X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-5960X is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800HS in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-5960X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5800HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-5960X 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 7 5800HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.