AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs Intel Core i7-6600U

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Core i7-6600U comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600 beats the Core i7-6600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U 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 i7-6600U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i7-6600U. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6600U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. Also, the Ryzen 5 2600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-6600U 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.