AMD Ryzen 5 6600U vs Ryzen 5 5600U
We compared two 6-core laptop CPUs: the 2.9 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 6600U against the 2.3 GHz Ryzen 5 5600U. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
Integrated Graphics
iGPU capabilities for gaming and 3D-intensive tasks
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 6600U
- Supports up to 64 GB DDR5-4800 RAM
- Newer - released 1-year later
- Newer PCI Express version – 4.0
- More modern manufacturing process – 6 versus 7 nanometers
- 7% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.5 GHz vs 4.2 GHz)
- 10% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 1947 vs 1777 points
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 5600U
- More than 10° C higher critical temperature
Promotion
Test in Benchmarks
Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasksCinebench R23
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
| File compression | 760.9 MB/sec | 583.6 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 47.6 Klines/sec | 49 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 158.4 pages/sec | 105.6 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 176.5 Mpixels/sec | 180.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 200.9 pages/sec | 181.7 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 30.3 images/sec | 30.4 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 64.4 images/sec | 44.9 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 10.2 Mpixels/sec | 13.6 Mpixels/sec |
PassMark
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
| Integer math | 62.7 GOps/sec | 58.4 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 33.9 GOps/sec | 31.2 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 54M Primes/sec | 48M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 21.4M Strings/sec | 19.4M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 12.8 GBytes/sec | 11.7 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 199.1 MBytes/sec | 183 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 871 Frames/sec | 683 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 13B Matrices/sec | 12B Matrices/sec |
Specifications
Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 5 6600U and Ryzen 5 5600UGeneral
| Vendor | AMD | AMD |
| Released | January 4, 2022 | January 12, 2021 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Zen 3+ (Rembrandt) | Zen 3 (Cezanne) |
| Integrated GPU | Radeon 660M | Radeon RX Vega 7 |
CPU
| P-Cores | 6 | 6 |
| P-Threads | 12 | 12 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 2.9 GHz | 2.3 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | 4.5 GHz | 4.2 GHz |
| Total Cores | 6 | 6 |
| Total Threads | 12 | 12 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz | 100 MHz |
| Multiplier | 29x | 23x |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) | 64K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 512K (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 16MB (shared) | 16MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | No | No |
Package
| Fabrication process | 6 nm | 7 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 15-28 W (configurable) | 10-25 W (configurable) |
| Socket | FP7 | FP6 |
| Peak temperature | 95°C | 105°C |
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | AMD Radeon 660M | Radeon RX Vega 7 |
| GPU Base Clock | 1500 MHz | 300 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | 1900 MHz | 1800 MHz |
| Shading Units | 384 | 448 |
| TMUs | 24 | 28 |
| ROPs | 16 | 7 |
| Execution Units | 6 | - |
| TGP | 15 W | 10-45 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Memory Support
| Memory types | - DDR5-4800 - LPDDR5-6400 |
- DDR4-3200 - LPDDR4-4266 |
| Memory Size | 64 GB | 32 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 76.8 GB/s | - |
| ECC Support | No | No |
Misc
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 5 6600U official page | AMD Ryzen 5 5600U official page |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 | 3.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 20 | 12 |
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