AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i5-11260H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th 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

4599 points

10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points

6626 points

17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points

3989 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points

3862 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points

110.00 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9345 points

3% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

8990 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points

5841 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points

1703 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points

6055 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

1732 points

7% 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

2.6 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

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

15 W

200% significantly lower TDP

45 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

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

381st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i5-11260H comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i5-11260H performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11260H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Core i5-11260H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11260H CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.