Intel Core i5-6600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 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

2507 points

2650 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4645 points

10% slightly better gaming score

4215 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1909 points

2190 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1831 points

2104 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

47.76 points

47.87 points

0.23% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3416 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

2704 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1249 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

923 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3562 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

2612 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

903 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

2.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

626th of 1,089

602nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5

Ryzen 5 PRO Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

2019 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i5-6600 vs Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6600 beats the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores but the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U. Also, the Core i5-6600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U outputs less heat than Core i5-6600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-6600. Despite this, the Core i5-6600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 3500U.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Core i5-6600 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.