AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i5-11400F

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
5669 points
35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points
8320 points
47% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points
4844 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points
4676 points
29% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points
128.47 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9345 points
10235 points
9% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points
7380 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points
1895 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points
7590 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points
1979 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

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
333% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

422nd of 1,089
277th 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 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i5-11400F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i5-11400F is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600U. 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. Our comparison shows that the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Core i5-11400F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11400F 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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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