Intel Core i5-6600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 175.64
$ 135.32
$ 40.32 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2754 points
6267 points
127% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5105 points
8333 points
63% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2098 points
5604 points
167% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2013 points
5431 points
169% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2595 points
5664 points
118% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

55.62 points
150.92 points
171% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3989 points
8330 points
108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1400 points
1980 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4043 points
8600 points
112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1429 points
2052 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.50 GHz
0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.4 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

91 W
65 W
40% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
32 MiB
433% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

578th of 1,089
237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

6th Generation Core i5
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i5-6600K vs Ryzen 5 5600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600 is faster than the Core i5-6600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-6600K has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6600K. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 outputs less heat than Core i5-6600K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K. The Ryzen 5 5600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i5-6600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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