AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 268V

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 8 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

6267 points
10% slightly better overall score
5659 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8333 points
8803 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5604 points
19% slightly better multitasking score
4696 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5431 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
4485 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

150.92 points
29% slightly higher Blender score
116.39 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8600 points
9715 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2052 points
2434 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz
59% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
14 MiB
366% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 1,089
279th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-8533

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 5600 vs Core Ultra 7 268V comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 7 268V beats the Ryzen 5 5600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 268V has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600 that has 6 cores. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has more threads than the Core Ultra 7 268V. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core Ultra 7 268V. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 7 268V has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 268V.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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