AMD Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Intel Core i7-6950X

Ryzen 7 5800HS vs Core i7-6950X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-6950X is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-6950X has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5800HS that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-6950X 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 i7-6950X 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 7 5800HS has significantly 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 7 5800HS.

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.