AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core i9-11950H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 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

6413 points

6449 points

0.56% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8715 points

2% slightly better gaming score

8487 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5671 points

5818 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5491 points

5677 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

153.40 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11838 points

13113 points

10% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

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

5 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

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

768 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

24 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

223rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

11th Generation Core i9

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 i9-11950H benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-11950H performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-11950H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-11950H. Despite this, the Core i9-11950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11950H 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.