AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 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

4361 points

1% slightly better overall score

4282 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

6145 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

3732 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

3606 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

92.33 points

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

3.4 GHz

112% significantly higher clock speed

1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.4 GHz

12% 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

6.5 MiB

116% significantly 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

404th of 1,089

412th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

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 2600 vs Core i5-1245U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-1245U is faster than the Ryzen 5 2600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i5-1245U has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 2600 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1245U. In terms of cache, the Core i5-1245U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 2600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600 has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1245U.

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.