AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i5-10400

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 6 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

4862 points

1% slightly better overall score

4799 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points

6712 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

4192 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

4056 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4965 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

4753 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

113.95 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5738 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5557 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1391 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5695 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5556 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1590 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1451 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

2.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.3 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

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

358th of 1,089

367th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i5-10400 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600H performs better than the Core i5-10400. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10400 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-10400. Despite this, the Core i5-10400 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-10400 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 Ryzen 5 5600H has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10400. The Ryzen 5 5600H 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 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.