AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT vs Intel Core i7 5960X

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We compared two desktop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT with 6 cores 3.6GHz and Intel Core i7 5960X with 8 cores 3.0GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

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

Higher base frequency (3.6GHz vs 3.0GHz)

Lower TDP (65W vs 140W)

Intel Core i7 5960X 's Advantages

Larger memory bandwidth (68GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (3.0 vs 3)

Larger L3 cache size (20MB vs 16MB)

Score

Benchmark

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT +62%

2017

Intel Core i7 5960X

1244

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT +22%

8165

Intel Core i7 5960X

6669

AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

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Intel Core i7 5960X

General Parameters

Jan 2024

Release Date

Aug 2014

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Desktop

Type

Desktop

-

Instruction Set

x86-64

Cezanne

Core Architecture

Haswell E

-

Processor Number

i7-5960X

AMD Socket AM4

Socket

LGA-2011-3

Radeon Vega 7

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Ryzen 5 (Zen 3 (Cezanne))

Generation

-

Package

10.7 billions

Transistor Count

2.6 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 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

8

-

Performance Core Threads

16

3.6 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.0 GHz

4.4 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.5 GHz

6

Total Core Count

8

12

Total Thread Count

16

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

36.0

Multiplier

30x

64 KB per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

512 KB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

16 MB

L3 Cache

20 MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

No

1

SMP

-

Memory Parameters

DDR4-3200

Memory Types

DDR4-2133

-

Max Memory Size

64 GB

2

Max Memory Channels

4

51.2 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

68 GB/s

No

ECC Memory Support

No

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Official Website

Intel Core i7 5960X

3

PCIe Version

3.0

16

PCIe Lanes

40

-

Extended Instruction Set

SSE4.2, AVX-2

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