Intel Core i5-10600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Price

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$ 209.95

$ 135.32

$ 74.63 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5576 points

6267 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7752 points

8333 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4881 points

5604 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4723 points

5431 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5401 points

5664 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

134.52 points

150.92 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6883 points

8330 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1630 points

1980 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6842 points

8600 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1687 points

2052 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.1 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

3.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

125 W

65 W

92% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1.5 MiB

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

287th of 1,089

237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

10th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-10600K vs Ryzen 5 5600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600 is faster than the Core i5-10600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10600K in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600. Also, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 outputs less heat than Core i5-10600K thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10600K. The Ryzen 5 5600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Core i5-10600K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.