AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i5-9300H

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i5-9300H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600H beats the Core i5-9300H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9300H 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 i5-9300H has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-9300H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9300H. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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