AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i3-6100U

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i3-6100U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600G beats the Core i3-6100U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-6100U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more cores than the Core i3-6100U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i3-6100U. It also has more threads than the Core i3-6100U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-6100U. The Core i3-6100U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600G thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.