AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs Intel Core i9-7900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 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
7006 points
67% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points
7653 points
35% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points
6778 points
82% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points
6719 points
86% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points
209.19 points
108% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points
9102 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points
14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1406 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points
8832 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1432 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
20
66% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
3.3 GHz
43% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.3 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
833% significantly lower TDP
140 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
14% slightly more L3 cache
14 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

422nd of 1,089
193rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Core i9-7900X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7900X beats the Ryzen 5 5600U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-7900X has significantly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Core i9-7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-7900X 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.

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