AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i7-11700K

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i7-11700K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i7-11700K 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i7-11700K has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600U. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-11700K has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11700K CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core i7-11700K has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600U. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.