AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs Intel Core i5-1145G7

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Core i5-1145G7 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600X beats the Core i5-1145G7 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1145G7 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 1600X 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1145G7. The Core i5-1145G7 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X 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 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.