AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i9-9940X

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

8137 points

67% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6603 points

7646 points

15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4311 points

8299 points

92% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4176 points

8373 points

100% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

116.70 points

256.89 points

120% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5738 points

9956 points

73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1625 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1379 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5695 points

10437 points

83% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1590 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1460 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

133% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

133% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

Identical

3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.4 GHz

4% 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

366th of 1,099

148th of 1,099

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600H vs Core i9-9940X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9940X beats the Ryzen 5 5600H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-9940X has significantly more cores with 14 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600H has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600H. Both the Ryzen 5 5600H and Core i9-9940X have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-9940X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600H CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9940X CPU because of its 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.