AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i5-11600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 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
$ 58.01 significantly less expensive
$ 199.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
6621 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
9474 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
5722 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
5531 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points
6323 points
14% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
156.80 points
6% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10551 points
11311 points
7% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points
8447 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points
2118 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
8549 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
2208 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
Identical
3.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
4.9 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
92% significantly lower TDP
125 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
480 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

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
215th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i5-11600K specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-11600K beats the Ryzen 5 5600G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600G in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 5600G and Core i5-11600K are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Core i5-11600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600K. 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.

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