AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Intel Core i7-930

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs Intel Core 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 287.24
$ 20.05 slightly less expensive
$ 307.29

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
476% significantly better overall score
1941 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
215% significantly better gaming score
3145 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
635% significantly better multitasking score
1583 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
678% significantly better heavy workload score
1519 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
1344% significantly higher Blender score
28.18 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points
722% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1490 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points
397% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
432 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
730% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1449 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
419% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
425 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
300% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
300% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
60% significantly higher turbo speed
3.06 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
23% slightly lower TDP
130 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089
729th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2010 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Core i7-930 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5950X is faster than the Core i7-930. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-930 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Core i7-930 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-930. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-930. Also, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5950X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-930 CPU because of its slightly 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 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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