AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Intel Core i7-6700K

Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Core i7-6700K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6700K 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has significantly more cores than the Core i7-6700K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-6700K. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6700K. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-6700K has a much higher clock speed compared to 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 i7-6700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6700K. The Ryzen 7 5800HS also has significantly more L3 cache.

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