AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-1145G7

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-1145G7 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600 beats the Core i5-1145G7 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i5-1145G7 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-1145G7 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1145G7. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1145G7. Despite this, the Core i5-1145G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1145G7 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.