AMD Ryzen 3 2200U vs Intel Core i5-6500TE

Ryzen 3 2200U vs Core i5-6500TE benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-6500TE beats the Ryzen 3 2200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 2200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i5-6500TE has significantly more cores with 4 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 2200U has 2 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 2200U has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6500TE. Also, the Ryzen 3 2200U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 2200U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6500TE CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Core i5-6500TE 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 Ryzen 3 2200U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.