AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i5-1155G7

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 4 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
51% significantly better overall score
2975 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
18% slightly better gaming score
5094 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
68% significantly better multitasking score
2375 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
70% significantly better heavy workload score
2277 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
88% significantly higher Blender score
53.40 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

6468 points
11% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
5791 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
4793 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
1719 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

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
28 W
132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089
541st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i5-1155G7 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 1600 is faster than the Core i5-1155G7. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1155G7 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more cores than the Core i5-1155G7. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-1155G7. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1155G7. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1155G7. Despite this, the Core i5-1155G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1155G7 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.

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

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