AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs Intel Core i5-6600

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Core i5-6600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500U performs better than the Core i5-6600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5500U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-6600. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-6600. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6600. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-6600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U 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 5500U has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i5-6600. The Ryzen 5 5500U also has slightly 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 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.