AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i5-1245U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 10 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
4282 points
2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points
6145 points
8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points
3732 points
0.24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points
0.06% slightly better heavy workload score
3606 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points
8% slightly higher Blender score
92.33 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9345 points
13% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
8199 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

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
4.4 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

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
800 KiB
108% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
6.5 MiB
116% significantly more L2 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
412th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
12th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2022 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR5-4800

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 i5-1245U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600U performs better than the Core i5-1245U. Despite this, the Core i5-1245U has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i5-1245U has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Indeed, the Core i5-1245U has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600U. But they both have the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600U has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-1245U. The info from our database shows that the Core i5-1245U has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600U has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core i5-1245U.

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.

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