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

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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Intel Core i5-11600KF

Price

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$ 140.99

$ 67.32 significantly less expensive

$ 208.31

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

6657 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

9464 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

5784 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

5598 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points

6309 points

14% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

151.30 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points

8483 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points

2086 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

8630 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

2226 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

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

Identical

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

Identical

3 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

213th 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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i5-11600KF comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11600KF performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600G. 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. Both the Ryzen 5 5600G and Core i5-11600KF have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i5-11600KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11600KF CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 5600G also has slightly more L3 cache.

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.