AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i5-10500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i5-10500

Price

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$ 140.99

$ 18.01 slightly less expensive

$ 159.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

35% slightly better overall score

4526 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

28% slightly better gaming score

6446 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

3934 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

38% slightly better heavy workload score

3805 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points

7252 points

31% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

124.71 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5596 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1501 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5547 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1529 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

4.5 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089

387th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i5-10500 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600G performs better than the Core i5-10500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10500 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10500. Despite this, the Core i5-10500 has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10500. The Ryzen 5 5600G 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 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.