Intel Core i5-11600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Price

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$ 140.00

$ 50.07 significantly less expensive

$ 190.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5920 points

8046 points

35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8284 points

10893 points

31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5201 points

7125 points

36% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5041 points

6898 points

36% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

158.65 points

199.23 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8131 points

11709 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2100 points

2649 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7951 points

12203 points

53% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2104 points

2751 points

30% 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

2.8 GHz

3.80 GHz

35% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.1 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

6 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

258th of 1,089

147th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11600 vs Ryzen 5 7600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7600 beats the Core i5-11600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11600 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11600. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7600 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600. The Ryzen 5 7600 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 i5-11600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.