AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs Intel Core Ultra 5 245K

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Core Ultra 5 245K benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core Ultra 5 245K is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 5 245K has significantly more cores with 14 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Core Ultra 5 245K has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Also, the Core Ultra 5 245K has a slightly higher turbo speed. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Core Ultra 5 245K has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has slightly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 5 245K.

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.