AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i5-1155G7

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i5-1155G7 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600X beats the Core i5-1155G7 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-1155G7 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-1155G7 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-1155G7. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-1155G7. Despite this, the Core i5-1155G7 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-1155G7 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.

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.