AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i7-8700T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 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
65% significantly better overall score
2945 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points
56% significantly better gaming score
4207 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points
68% significantly better multitasking score
2558 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points
68% significantly better heavy workload score
2473 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points
26% slightly higher Blender score
92.37 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5738 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4790 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1265 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5695 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4733 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1590 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1336 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
37% slightly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
35 W
28% slightly lower TDP

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
546th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2666

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 i7-8700T comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600H performs better than the Core i7-8700T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700T in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8700T. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8700T outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600H thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600H has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-8700T. The Ryzen 5 5600H also has slightly 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 5600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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