Intel Core i7-11600H vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare Intel 11th Generation Core i7 6 core CPU vs AMD 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
3% slightly better overall score
4985 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7209 points
10% slightly better gaming score
6530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4538 points
0.93% slightly better multitasking score
4496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4400 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score
4354 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

107.90 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
87.35 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
32% slightly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

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
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

11th Generation Core i7
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 August
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-11600H vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11600H is faster than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i7-11600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-11600H has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Core i7-11600H 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. Indeed, the Core i7-11600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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