AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-10500H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 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

4496 points

3% slightly better overall score

4357 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

6522 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

3693 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

3555 points

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3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3194 points

6321 points

97% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

12% slightly higher Blender score

88.96 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

6468 points

7387 points

14% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

5095 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

1447 points

33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

28% slightly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.5 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

406th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2020 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-10500H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10500H beats the Ryzen 5 1600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10500H. Despite this, the Core i5-10500H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10500H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.