AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i7-8700

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Price

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$ 287.24
$ 150.25
$ 136.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11217 points
134% significantly better overall score
4775 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9950 points
47% significantly better gaming score
6751 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11664 points
180% significantly better multitasking score
4152 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11856 points
195% significantly better heavy workload score
4008 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points
144% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
4845 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
272% significantly higher Blender score
109.37 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5865 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1478 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5964 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1536 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
166% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
166% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
166% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

67th of 1,099
375th of 1,099

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

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