Intel Core i5-6600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U

Core i5-6600K vs Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U beats the Core i5-6600K in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-6600K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-6600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-6600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600K. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U outputs less heat than Core i5-6600K thanks to a significantly 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 PRO 7530U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K. The Ryzen 5 PRO 7530U 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. For instance, the Core i5-6600K has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.