Intel Core i5-9300HF vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition

Core i5-9300HF vs Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-9300HF beats the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-9300HF that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9300HF. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9300HF. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-9300HF. The Ryzen 5 6600HS Creator Edition also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i5-9300HF has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.