AMD Ryzen 5 6600H vs Intel Core Ultra 7 356H

Ryzen 5 6600H vs Core Ultra 7 356H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 6600H beats the Core Ultra 7 356H in overall performance. Despite this, the Core Ultra 7 356H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 6600H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 6600H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 7 356H. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 7 356H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 6600H. The Core Ultra 7 356H also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 6600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.