Product Compare

AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX vs Intel Core i7 5960X

	CPU AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX	CPU Intel Core i7 5960X
General Parameters
Release Date	Jan 2024	Aug 2014
Manufacturer	AMD	Intel
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Dragon Range	Haswell E
Integrated Graphics	Radeon 610M	N/A
Generation	Ryzen 9 (Zen 4 (Dragon Range))
Processor Number		i7-5960X
Package
Transistor Count	13.14 billions	2.6 billions
Manufacturing Process	5 nm	22 nm
Socket	AMD Socket FL1	LGA-2011-3
Power Consumption	55 W	140 W
Peak Operating Temperature	100°C
Foundry	TSMC
Die Size	2x71 mm²
I/O Process Size	6 nm
I/O Die Size	122 mm²
Package	µFC-BGAFL1
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	16	8
Performance Core Threads	32	16
Performance Core Base Frequency	2.4 GHz	3.0 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	5.2 GHz	3.5 GHz
Total Core Count	16	8
Total Thread Count	32	16
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	24.0	30x
L1 Cache	64 KB per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	1 MB per core	256 K per core
L3 Cache	64 MB shared	20 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	Yes	No
SMP	1
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR5-5200	DDR4-2133
Max Memory Size	64 GB	64 GB
Max Memory Channels	2	4
Max Memory Bandwidth	83.2 GB/s	68 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	No
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics	true
GPU Base Frequency	400 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency	2200 MHz
Shader Units	128
Texture Units	8
Raster Operation Units	4
Execution Units	2
Power Consumption	15 W
Miscellaneous
PCIe Version	5	3.0
PCIe Lanes	28	40
Official Website		Official Link ↗
Extended Instruction Set		SSE4.2, AVX-2
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1864	1057
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	33370	9850
Geekbench 6 Single Core	2688	1244
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	15655	6669