AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i5-2520M

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
$ 69.00
$ 71.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
527% significantly better overall score
979 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
342% significantly better gaming score
1873 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
638% significantly better multitasking score
738 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
645% significantly better heavy workload score
708 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
1045% significantly higher Blender score
12.81 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points
728% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
915 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points
308% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
462 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
726% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
929 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
313% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
467 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
56% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
37% slightly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
35 W
85% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
955th 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
2011 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1066

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i5-2520M comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600G performs better than the Core i5-2520M. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2520M 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 i5-2520M. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has 6 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Core i5-2520M. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2520M. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-2520M. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-2520M 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.

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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