AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i5-8265U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i5 4 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
123% significantly better overall score
2174 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points
73% significantly better gaming score
3802 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points
152% significantly better multitasking score
1707 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points
156% significantly better heavy workload score
1627 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points
222% significantly higher Blender score
36.15 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10416 points
197% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
3500 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5738 points
152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2272 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points
125% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
720 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
106% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed
3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
15 W
200% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

358th of 1,089
688th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
8th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2018 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i5-8265U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600H performs better than the Core i5-8265U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-8265U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600H has significantly more cores than the Core i5-8265U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-8265U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-8265U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600H has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i5-8265U. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-8265U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5600H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-8265U. The Ryzen 5 5600H also has significantly 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.

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