AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i7-8700T

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel 8th Generation Core i7 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

41% slightly better overall score

2945 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points

34% slightly better gaming score

4207 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points

45% significantly better multitasking score

2558 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points

45% significantly better heavy workload score

2473 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points

8% slightly higher Blender score

92.37 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4790 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1265 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

4733 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1336 points

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

2.4 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

133% significantly lower TDP

35 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

1.5 MiB

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

546th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

8th Generation Core i7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2018 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i7-8700T benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600U performs better than the Core i7-8700T. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8700T in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i7-8700T 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 i7-8700T CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5600U has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-8700T. The Ryzen 5 5600U also has slightly more 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.