AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i5-11400T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-11400T

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 50.01 significantly less expensive

$ 150.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points

34% slightly better overall score

3254 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

20% slightly better gaming score

4938 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

2740 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

2640 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

0.29% slightly higher Blender score

105.96 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points

5472 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points

1568 points

34% 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

161% significantly higher clock speed

1.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

3.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

20% slightly more L1 cache

480 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 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

504th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i5-11400T benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2600 is faster than the Core i5-11400T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11400T in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11400T. Also, the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11400T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. 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.