AMD Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Intel Core i5-11600

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6179 points

4% slightly better overall score

5920 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7639 points

8284 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5707 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

5201 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5585 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

5041 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

160.71 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

158.65 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

7% 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

35 W

85% significantly lower TDP

65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

8 KiB

480 KiB

5899% significantly more L1 cache

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

240th of 1,089

258th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

11th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 5900HS vs Core i5-11600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900HS is faster than the Core i5-11600. Despite this, the Core i5-11600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HS 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-11600. A Ryzen 9 5900HS CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-11600 CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5900HS has more L2 cache than the Core i5-11600. The Ryzen 9 5900HS 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 9 5900HS has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.