AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i5-5200U

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Price

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$ 224.25
$ 1261.75 significantly less expensive
$ 1486.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6463 points
520% significantly better overall score
1041 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8788 points
333% significantly better gaming score
2025 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5714 points
633% significantly better multitasking score
779 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5532 points
639% significantly better heavy workload score
748 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points
756% significantly higher Blender score
18.12 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points
477% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1480 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
763 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points
473% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1512 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points
168% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
785 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
68% significantly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
70% significantly higher turbo speed
2.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
15 W
333% significantly lower TDP

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

20
66% significantly more pcie lanes
12

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
700% significantly more supported memory
16 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache
128 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
1100% significantly more L2 cache
0.25 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
966% significantly more L3 cache
3 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

234th of 1,114
958th of 1,114

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
5th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2015 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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