AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i5-6200U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 2 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
365% significantly better overall score
1045 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points
225% significantly better gaming score
2029 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points
450% significantly better multitasking score
783 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points
456% significantly better heavy workload score
751 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points
461% significantly higher Blender score
20.78 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5738 points
330% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1333 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points
191% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
558 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

3.3 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
49% significantly higher turbo speed
2.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

358th of 1,089
935th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i5-6200U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600H beats the Core i5-6200U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6200U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600H has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-6200U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6200U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-6200U. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6200U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600H thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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