AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i7-6600U

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core i7-6600U comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Core i7-6600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6600U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Core i7-6600U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6600U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6600U. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-6600U 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.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.