AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i7-11700K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i7 8 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
$ 218.01 significantly less expensive
$ 359.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
7984 points
30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
9165 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
7574 points
39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
7434 points
40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points
8151 points
47% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
208.15 points
41% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10551 points
14281 points
35% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points
9777 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points
2159 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
9888 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
2246 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5 GHz
13% 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
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
149th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
11th Generation Core i7

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 i7-11700K specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i7-11700K 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-11700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700K. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Core i7-11700K has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600G. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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