Intel Core 2 Duo E6550 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Core 2 Duo E6550 vs Ryzen 5 5560U benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5560U is faster than the Core 2 Duo E6550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E6550 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5560U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core 2 Duo E6550 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E6550. With our hardware info, we find that the Core 2 Duo E6550 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5560U. The info from our database shows that the Core 2 Duo E6550 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5560U

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core 2 Duo E6550 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.