AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i7-8665U

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core i7-8665U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600X beats the Core i7-8665U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-8665U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i7-8665U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-8665U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-8665U. Despite this, the Core i7-8665U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-8665U 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.