AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i5-10500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-10500

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 59.01 significantly less expensive

$ 159.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points

4526 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

6446 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

3934 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

3805 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points

7252 points

109% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

124.71 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points

5596 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points

1501 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points

5547 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points

1529 points

31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.5 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

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

404th of 1,089

387th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i5-10500 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2600 performs better than the Core i5-10500. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10500. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 2600 has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10500. The Ryzen 5 2600 also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.