AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i5-10600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i5 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

4180 points

5576 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points

7752 points

37% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points

4881 points

31% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points

4723 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points

134.52 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9345 points

10475 points

12% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points

6883 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points

1630 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points

6842 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

1687 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

4.1 GHz

78% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.8 GHz

14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

733% significantly lower TDP

125 W

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

422nd of 1,089

287th 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

2020 May

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 5600U vs Core i5-10600K benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Core i5-10600K beats the Ryzen 5 5600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-10600K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Core i5-10600K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-10600K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 i5-10600K. The Ryzen 5 5600U also has slightly more L3 cache.

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