AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i5-10300H

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i5-10300H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 2600X is faster than the Core i5-10300H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10300H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10300H. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600X has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-10300H. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10300H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 2600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10300H. Despite this, the Core i5-10300H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-10300H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600X thanks to a 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 Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-10300H. The Ryzen 5 2600X 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.