AMD Ryzen 5 2500U vs Intel Core i5-6600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th 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

1996 points

2754 points

37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3127 points

5105 points

63% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1653 points

2098 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1584 points

2013 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

41.24 points

55.62 points

34% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2311 points

3989 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

830 points

1400 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2396 points

4043 points

68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

818 points

1429 points

74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2 GHz

3.5 GHz

75% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

3.9 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

506% significantly lower TDP

91 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

718th of 1,089

578th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 October

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2500U vs Core i5-6600K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-6600K performs better than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2500U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Ryzen 5 2500U has more threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2500U. Also, the Core i5-6600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2500U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6600K CPU because of its 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 Ryzen 5 2500U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600K. Despite this, the Core i5-6600K has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 2500U.

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 2500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.