AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D vs Intel Core i7 5960X

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D

Intel Core i7 5960X

We compared two desktop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D with 6 cores 3.0GHz 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 5500X3D 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 1 months late

Higher specification of memory (3200 vs 2133)

Newer PCIe version (4 vs 3.0)

Larger L3 cache size (96MB vs 20MB)

More modern manufacturing process (7nm vs 22nm)

Lower TDP (105W vs 140W)

Intel Core i7 5960X 's Advantages

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

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D +24%

1311

Intel Core i7 5960X

1057

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D +2%

10086

Intel Core i7 5960X

9850

AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D

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Intel Core i7 5960X

General Parameters

Sep 2024

Release Date

Aug 2014

AMD

Manufacturer

Intel

Desktop

Type

Desktop

-

Instruction Set

x86-64

Vermeer

Core Architecture

Haswell E

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Processor Number

i7-5960X

AMD Socket AM4

Socket

LGA-2011-3

N/A

Integrated Graphics

N/A

Ryzen 5 (Zen 3 (Vermeer))

Generation

-

Package

-

Transistor Count

2.6 billions

7 nm

Manufacturing Process

22 nm

105 W

Power Consumption

140 W

TSMC

Foundry

-

74 mm²

Die Size

-

12 nm

I/O Process Size

-

125 mm²

I/O Die Size

-

CPU Performance

-

Performance Cores

8

-

Performance Core Threads

16

3.0 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.0 GHz

4.0 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

3.5 GHz

6

Total Core Count

8

12

Total Thread Count

16

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

30

Multiplier

30x

64 KB per core

L1 Cache

64 K per core

512 KB per core

L2 Cache

256 K per core

96 MB

L3 Cache

20 MB shared

No

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

Yes

ECC Memory Support

No

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D

Official Website

Intel Core i7 5960X

4

PCIe Version

3.0

20

PCIe Lanes

40

-

Extended Instruction Set

SSE4.2, AVX-2

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