AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i5-2430M

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i5-2430M benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600U beats the Core i5-2430M in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2430M in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600U has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i5-2430M has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2430M. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i5-2430M has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600U has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-2430M 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.