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Intel Core i7-5820K vs AMD FX-9830P

Last updated: 2026-07-03

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-5820K

Rank 2 - 67 %

AMD FX-9830P

Multi-core performance

Rank 1 - 100 %

Intel Core i7-5820K

Rank 2 - 30 %

AMD FX-9830P

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

795 pts

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

597 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.40 GHz

5,700 pts

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,653 pts

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

329 cb

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

225 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

923

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

538

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.40 GHz

2,301 cb

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

641 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.40 GHz

5,537

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

1,512

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.60 GHz

139 cb

4C / 4T · 3.70 GHz

86 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

6C / 12T · 3.40 GHz

1,085 cb

4C / 4T · 3.40 GHz

276 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

Blender 3.1 Benchmark
213 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
190 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

Geekbench 3 (SC)
945 entries

Geekbench 3 (MC)
941 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (SC)
826 entries

Cinebench R11.5 (MC)
837 entries

Cinebench R11.5 iGPU
383 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5820K	AMD FX-9830P
Family	Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition (24)	AMD FX (30)
CPU group	Intel Core i 5000X (3)	AMD FX-9800 (2)
Architecture	Haswell E	Excavator (Bristol Ridge)
Technology	22 nm	28 nm
Segment	Desktop	Notebook
Socket	LGA 2011-3	FP4
Predecessor	Intel Core i7-4820K
Successor

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5820K	AMD FX-9830P
CPU Cores / Threads	6 / 12	4 / 4
Hyperthreading / SMT	✓	✗
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	6x	4x
Frequency:	3.30 GHz	3.00 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	3.60 GHz	3.70 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.40 GHz	3.40 GHz
L2-Cache		2.00 MB
L3-Cache	15.00 MB
Overclocking	✓	✗

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5820K	AMD FX-9830P
GPU name	no iGPU	AMD Radeon R7 - 512 (Bristol Ridge)
GPU frequency		0.90 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	8 / 512
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		2
Max. GPU Memory		2 GB
Technology		28 nm
Release date		Q2/2016

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5820K	AMD FX-9830P
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5820K	AMD FX-9830P
Memory	DDR4-2133 (68.2 GB/s)	DDR4-2400 (38.4 GB/s)
Max. Memory	64 GB	64 GB
Memory channels	4	2
ECC	No	No
PCIe	3.0 x 28	3.0 x 8
PCIe Bandwidth	27.6 GB/s	7.9 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5820K	AMD FX-9830P
TDP	140 W	35 W
TDP (PL2)
TDP up		45 W
TDP down		25 W
T. junction max.		90 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-5820K	AMD FX-9830P
Chip design	Monolithic	Unknown
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, FMA4
Release date	Q3/2014	Q2/2016
Release price	499 $
Documents	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-5820K is 4.5 stars (18 ratings), while AMD FX-9830P has received 3.0 stars (4 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-5820K
6C / 12T · 3.30 - 3.60 GHz

★★★★★

AMD FX-9830P
4C / 4T · 3.00 - 3.70 GHz

★★★★★