AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i7-2600

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Core i7-2600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700G beats the Core i7-2600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-2600 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700G has significantly more cores than the Core i7-2600. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i7-2600. It also has more threads than the Core i7-2600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-2600. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-2600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.