AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i5-11260H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 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

6410 points

39% slightly better overall score

4599 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

31% slightly better gaming score

6626 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

42% slightly better multitasking score

3989 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

3862 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

7280 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

110.00 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11838 points

31% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

8990 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5841 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1703 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

6055 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1732 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

3.7 GHz

42% slightly higher clock speed

2.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

Identical

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

166% significantly more L3 cache

12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

381st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2021 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core i5-11260H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Core i5-11260H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11260H in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11260H. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-11260H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.