AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i7-1185G7

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 99.99
$ 1177.96 significantly less expensive
$ 1277.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points
44% significantly better overall score
3014 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points
15% slightly better gaming score
5168 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points
60% significantly better multitasking score
2395 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points
62% significantly better heavy workload score
2286 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points
76% significantly higher Blender score
60.09 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points
5178 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points
1697 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points
5187 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points
1724 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
4.8 GHz
23% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

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
538th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
11th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2020 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i7-1185G7 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600 beats the Core i7-1185G7 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-1185G7 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 2600 has significantly more cores than the Core i7-1185G7. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-1185G7. It also has more threads than the Core i7-1185G7. The Core i7-1185G7 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.

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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