Core i7-2600 vs Ryzen 5 5500 specs and performance
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500 beats the Core i7-2600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600 in all gaming tests too.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5500 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-2600 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-2600. Also, the Ryzen 5 5500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Core i7-2600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.
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 i7-2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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