AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i5-11600

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 184.99
$ 140.00
$ 44.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7430 points
25% slightly better overall score
5920 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points
5% slightly better gaming score
8284 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points
34% slightly better multitasking score
5201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points
36% slightly better heavy workload score
5041 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points
24% slightly higher Blender score
158.65 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8659 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
8131 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points
2100 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7951 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points
2104 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
35% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
4.8 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
6% slightly more L1 cache
480 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
12 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089
258th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop
11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Core i5-11600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700G beats the Core i5-11600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-11600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700G has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Core i5-11600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-11600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-11600. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 5700G has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i5-11600. The Ryzen 7 5700G also has slightly more L3 cache.

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 7 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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