AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core 2 Duo E6550

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 140.99
$ 95.91
$ 45.08 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
1080% significantly better overall score
520 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
631% significantly better gaming score
1134 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
1368% significantly better multitasking score
371 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
1382% significantly better heavy workload score
356 points

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points
1827% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
393 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points
650% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
251 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
1753% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
414 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
666% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
252 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
499% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
67% significantly higher clock speed
2.33 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
1,070th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2007 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
-

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core 2 Duo E6550 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600G performs better than the Core 2 Duo E6550. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core 2 Duo E6550 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core 2 Duo E6550 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core 2 Duo E6550. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core 2 Duo E6550. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 Core 2 Duo E6550 has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600G

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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