AMD Ryzen 5 6600H vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

5291 points
6% slightly better overall score
4985 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7096 points
8% slightly better gaming score
6530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4729 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
4496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4589 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
4354 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.09 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
87.35 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz
49% significantly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
Identical
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

311th of 1,089
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 5 6600H vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 6600H beats the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 6600H has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 6600H also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 6600H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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