AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs Intel Core i7-11390H

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Core i7-11390H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600X beats the Core i7-11390H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-11390H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-11390H that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11390H. The Core i7-11390H 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.