AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i5-10210U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th 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

4180 points
89% significantly better overall score
2205 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points
48% significantly better gaming score
3819 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points
113% significantly better multitasking score
1744 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points
116% significantly better heavy workload score
1666 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points
176% significantly higher Blender score
36.33 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9345 points
113% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
4376 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points
97% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
2911 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
948 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3069 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1196 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

2.3 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed
1.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
Identical
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

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

422nd of 1,089
684th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
10th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2019 August

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

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i5-10210U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600U is faster than the Core i5-10210U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-10210U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600U has significantly more cores than the Core i5-10210U. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600U has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-10210U. It also has more threads than the Core i5-10210U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-10210U. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 5600U has more L2 cache than the Core i5-10210U. The Ryzen 5 5600U also has significantly 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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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