AMD Ryzen 5 3450U vs Intel Core i5-6600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2626 points

4% slightly better overall score

2507 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4310 points

4645 points

7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2126 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

1909 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2033 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

1831 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

39.48 points

47.76 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.3 GHz

57% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.5 GHz

3.9 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

604th of 1,089

626th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile with Radeon Vega Graphics

6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-1866

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 3450U vs Core i5-6600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-6600 is faster than the Ryzen 5 3450U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3450U in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 3450U has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-6600 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U. A Ryzen 5 3450U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-6600 CPU because of its 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 3450U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600. Despite this, the Core i5-6600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 3450U.

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 3450U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.