AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i9-7940X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 14 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
5222 points
7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points
7% slightly better gaming score
6170 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points
4938 points
14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points
4896 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points
261.54 points
124% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5738 points
9233 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1299 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5695 points
10511 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1590 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1444 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
14
133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
28
133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 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
266% significantly lower TDP
165 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
896 KiB
133% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
25 MiB
56% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

358th of 1,089
324th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2017 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
No

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i9-7940X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600H performs better than the Core i9-7940X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-7940X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7940X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Indeed, the Core i9-7940X has 14 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600H. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-7940X. Despite this, the Core i9-7940X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7940X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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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