Intel Core i5-11600 vs AMD Ryzen 9 8940HX

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 8 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

10700 points

80% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8284 points

10758 points

29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5201 points

10731 points

106% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5041 points

10842 points

115% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

158.65 points

458.15 points

188% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz

2.9 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

55 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB

1024 KiB

113% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

258th of 1,089

75th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 February

2025 April

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 9 8940HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11600 is faster than the Ryzen 9 8940HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8940HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11600. Also, the Ryzen 9 8940HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8940HX 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 9 8940HX has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 8940HX.

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.