AMD Ryzen 7 5700 vs Intel Core i7 6950X

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We compared two desktop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 7 5700 with 8 cores 3.7GHz and Intel Core i7 6950X with 10 cores 3.0GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 7 5700's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

Higher specification of memory (DDR4-3200 vs DDR4-2133)

Higher base frequency (3.7GHz vs 3.0GHz)

Lower TDP (65W vs 140W)

Intel Core i7 6950X's Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (76.8GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (3.0 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (25MB vs 16MB)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 7 5700 +97%

2014

Intel Core i7 6950X

1020

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 7 5700 +27%

8599

Intel Core i7 6950X

6726

AMD Ryzen 7 5700

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Intel Core i7 6950X

General Parameters

Apr 2022

Release Date

May 2016

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Desktop

Type

Desktop

-

Instruction Set

x86-64

Cezanne

Core Architecture

Broadwell E

-

Processor Number

i7-6950X

AMD Socket AM4

Socket

LGA-2011-3

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Ryzen 7 (Zen 3 (Cezanne))

Generation

-

Package

10.7 billions

Transistor Count

-

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

14 nm

AMD Socket AM4

Socket

LGA-2011-3

65 W

Power Consumption

140 W

95 °C

Peak Operating Temperature

-

TSMC

Foundry

-

180 mm²

Die Size

-

µOPGA-1331

Package

-

CPU Performance

-

Performance Cores

10

-

Performance Core Threads

20

3.7 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.0 GHz

4.6 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.5 GHz

8

Total Core Count

10

16

Total Thread Count

20

100MHz

Bus Frequency

100MHz

37.0

Multiplier

30x

64 KB per core

L1 Cache

32K per core

512 KB per core

L2 Cache

256K per core

16 MB

L3 Cache

25MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

No

1

SMP

-

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR4-2133

-

Max Memory Size

128GB

2

Max Memory Channels

4

51.2 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

76.8 GB/s

Yes

ECC Memory Support

No

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 7 5700

Official Website

Intel Core i7 6950X

3

PCIe Version

3.0

20

PCIe Lanes

40

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