AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core Ultra 5 235T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 14 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6139 points
8919 points
45% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8291 points
12454 points
50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5447 points
7821 points
43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
7571 points
43% significantly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
14
16% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
77% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
26 MiB
766% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
24 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

253rd of 1,107
115th of 1,107

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-6400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core Ultra 5 235T specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core Ultra 5 235T 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core Ultra 5 235T has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 5 235T. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 5 235T has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G. The Core Ultra 5 235T also has significantly 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.

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