AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i5-13600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i5 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 99.99
$ 199.40 significantly less expensive
$ 299.39

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points
12139 points
178% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points
14231 points
138% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points
11472 points
198% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points
11341 points
204% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points
10325 points
198% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points
308.32 points
190% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points
14478 points
202% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points
2652 points
134% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points
14998 points
206% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points
2681 points
130% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
13% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
5.1 GHz
30% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
92% significantly lower TDP
125 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
640 KiB
11% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

404th of 1,089
48th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
13th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2022 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i5-13600K specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-13600K 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 i5-13600K has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 2600 that has 6 cores. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-13600K. Despite this, the Core i5-13600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2600 CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-13600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i5-13600K has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2600. The Core i5-13600K also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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