AMD Ryzen 7 5800U 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

5087 points

5462 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6161 points

6552 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4760 points

5074 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4676 points

4955 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

139.86 points

141.38 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6263 points

7331 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1671 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1235 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6881 points

7412 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1741 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1302 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

1.9 GHz

3 GHz

57% significantly 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

15 W

833% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

340th 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 5800U vs Core i7-5960X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5800U performs better than the Core i7-5960X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-5960X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i7-5960X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800U 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.

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