Intel Core i7-11600H vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 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

5170 points
6% slightly better overall score
4837 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7209 points
4% slightly better gaming score
6909 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4538 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
4216 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4400 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score
4083 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

107.90 points
4% slightly higher Blender score
103.14 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6559 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6293 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1926 points
15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1663 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.92 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

7.5 MiB
150% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

18 MiB
125% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

329th of 1,089
361st of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 August
2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

-
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i7-11600H vs Ryzen 5 5560U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11600H is faster than the Ryzen 5 5560U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5560U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5560U. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-11600H has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5560U. The Core i7-11600H 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. Indeed, the Core i7-11600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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