AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs Intel Core i7-5820K

AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3200 MHz / Cores: 4 / Jun 2017
AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
Intel Core i7-5820K
Intel Socket 2011-3DESKTOP
3300 MHz / Cores: 6 / Sep 2014
Intel Core i7-5820K

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    128%

Relative performance

Single thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    105%

Relative performance

Multi thread performance index

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    100%
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    139%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 5 1500X

75 watts lower power draw.
This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).

Reasons to consider Intel Core i7-5820K

5% higher single threaded performance.
Much higher multi threaded performance (around 39% higher). This allows for higher performance in professional applications like encoding or heavy multitasking.
Around 28% higher average synthetic performance.

Intel Core i7-5820K

Gaming

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-5820K

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

Intel Core i7-5820K

Productivity

HWBench recommends Intel Core i7-5820K

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 5 1500XIntel Core i7-5820K
MMX
3DNow!
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSE4A
AMD64
CnQ
NX bit
AMD-V
SMT
SSSE3
SSE4.2
AVX
AVX2
EIST
Intel 64
XD bit
VT-x
VT-d
HTT
AES-NI
TSX
TXT
CLMUL
FMA3
F16C
BMI1
BMI2
Boost 2.0

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 5 1500XIntel Core i7-5820K
ArchitectureAMD ZenvsIntel_Haswell
MarketDesktopvsDesktop
Memory SupportDDR4vsDDR4
CodenameZenvsHaswell-E
Release DateJun 2017vsSep 2014

Cores

AMD Ryzen 5 1500XIntel Core i7-5820K
Cores4vs6
Threads8vs12
SMPs1vs1
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 5 1500XIntel Core i7-5820K
L1 Cache128 KB (per core)vs64 KB (per core)
L2 Cache512 KB (per core)vs256 KB (per core)
L3 Cache16384 KB (shared)vs15360 KB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 5 1500XIntel Core i7-5820K
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsIntel Socket 2011-3
Max Case Tempunknownvsunknown
PackageuPGAvs
Die Size192mm²vs356mm²
Process14 nmvs22 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 5 1500XIntel Core i7-5820K
Cpu Frequency3200 MHzvs3300 MHz
Turbo Clock3500 MHzvs3600 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
Voltageunknownvsunknown
TDP65 Wvs140 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    3850 points
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    4032 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    17177 points
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    26611 points

Points - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

Rendering: POV-Ray 3.7

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    1691
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    2114

points per second - higher is better

7-zip

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    21892
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    30660

MIPS - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Single Threaded)

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    100.03
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    118.67

points - higher is better

3D Particle Movement (Multi Threaded)

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    574.13
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    950.06

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Single 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    152
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    141

points - higher is better

Cinebench R15 CPU Multi 64Bit

  • AMD Ryzen 5 1500X
    799
  • Intel Core i7-5820K
    1022

points - higher is better