Intel Core i5-11600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5920 points

6306 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8284 points

8479 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5201 points

5619 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5041 points

5454 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

158.65 points

163.82 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7951 points

9274 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2104 points

2302 points

9% 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

4.30 GHz

53% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly lower TDP

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

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

258th of 1,089

235th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-11600 vs Ryzen 5 7640HS specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7640HS performs better than the Core i5-11600. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11600. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640HS outputs less heat than Core i5-11600 thanks to a slightly 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 7640HS has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600. The Ryzen 5 7640HS also has slightly 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.