AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 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

$ 265.99
$ 578.79 significantly less expensive
$ 844.78

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

44 %
Identical
44 %

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

60 %
64 %
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

38 %
Identical
38 %

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

37 %
2% slightly better heavy workload score
36 %

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5718
55% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
3688
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

112.08
15% slightly higher Blender score
97.27
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788
4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4587
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132
1288
13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4587
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132
1288
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
61% significantly higher clock speed
2.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
384 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
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

258th of 1,239
254th of 1,239

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

April 2018
December 2021

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Ryzen 5 5500U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500U beats the Ryzen 5 2600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Ryzen 5 5500U 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 2600 also has significantly 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.

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