Product Compare

Intel Core i7 5960X vs AMD Ryzen 7 H 255

	CPU Intel Core i7 5960X	CPU AMD Ryzen 7 H 255
General Parameters
Release Date	Aug 2014	Aug 2025
Manufacturer	Intel	Amd
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Instruction Set	x86-64	x86-64
Core Architecture	Haswell E	Zen 4 (Hawk Point)
Processor Number	i7-5960X
Integrated Graphics	N/A	Radeon 780M
Package
Transistor Count	2.6 billions	25 billions
Manufacturing Process	22 nm	4 nm
Socket	LGA-2011-3	FP8
Power Consumption	140 W	35-54 W
Peak Operating Temperature		100 °C
Die Size		178 mm²
CPU Performance
Performance Cores	8	8
Performance Core Threads	16	16
Performance Core Base Frequency	3.0 GHz	3.8 GHz
Performance Core Turbo Frequency	3.5 GHz	4.9 GHz
Total Core Count	8	8
Total Thread Count	16	16
Bus Frequency	100 MHz	100 MHz
Multiplier	30x	38
L1 Cache	64 K per core	64 K per core
L2 Cache	256 K per core	1 MB per core
L3 Cache	20 MB shared	16 MB shared
Unlocked Multiplier	No	No
Memory Parameters
Memory Types	DDR4-2133	DDR5-5600,LPDDR5x-7500
Max Memory Size	64 GB	256 GB
Max Memory Channels	4	2
Max Memory Bandwidth	68 GB/s	120 GB/s
ECC Memory Support	No	No
Miscellaneous
Official Website	Official Link ↗	Official Link ↗
PCIe Version	3.0	4.0
PCIe Lanes	40	20
Extended Instruction Set	SSE4.2, AVX-2
Graphics Card Parameters
Integrated Graphics		true
GPU Base Frequency		800 MHz
GPU Max Dynamic Frequency		2600 MHz
Shader Units		768
Texture Units		48
Raster Operation Units		32
Execution Units		12
Power Consumption		15
AI Accelerator
Theoretical performance		TOPS
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 Single Core	1057	1718
Cinebench R23 Multi Core	9850	16387
Geekbench 6 Single Core	1244	2551
Geekbench 6 Multi Core	6669	12673