AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs Intel Core i7-1255U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 12th Generation Core i7 10 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

20% slightly better overall score

3722 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

8% slightly better gaming score

5577 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

3201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

25% slightly better heavy workload score

3089 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

32% slightly higher Blender score

75.98 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

6468 points

9628 points

48% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

88% significantly higher clock speed

1.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.7 GHz

30% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

800 KiB

38% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

459th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5-4800

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Core i7-1255U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-1255U is faster than the Ryzen 5 1600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-1255U has significantly more cores with 10 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-1255U. Despite this, the Core i7-1255U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-1255U 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. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-1255U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i7-1255U.

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.