Intel Core i5-6600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600H

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Intel Core i5-6600K CPU1 vs CPU2 AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
Intel Core i5-6600K AMD Ryzen 5 2600H

CPU comparison

In this CPU comparison, we compare the Intel Core i5-6600K and the AMD Ryzen 5 2600H and use benchmarks to check which processor is faster.

We compare the Intel Core i5-6600K 4 core processor released in Q3/2015 with the AMD Ryzen 5 2600H which has 4 CPU cores and was introduced in Q4/2018.
Intel Core i5 (328) Family AMD Ryzen 5 (78)
Intel Core i 6000 (24) CPU group AMD Ryzen 2000H (2)
6 Generation 1
Skylake S Architecture Raven Ridge (Zen)
Desktop / Server Segment Mobile
-- Predecessor --
Intel Core i5-7600K Successor --

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

The Intel Core i5-6600K is a 4 core processor with a clock frequency of 3.50 GHz (3.90 GHz). The processor can compute 4 threads at the same time. The AMD Ryzen 5 2600H clocks with 3.20 GHz (3.60 GHz), has 4 CPU cores and can calculate 8 threads in parallel.

Intel Core i5-6600K Characteristic AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4 Cores 4
4 Threads 8
normal Core architecture normal
No Hyperthreading Yes
Yes Overclocking ? No
3.50 GHz Frequency 3.20 GHz
3.90 GHz Turbo Frequency (1 Core) 3.60 GHz
3.60 GHz Turbo Frequency (All Cores) --

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Processors with the support of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) can process many calculations, especially audio, image and video processing, much faster than classic processors. Algorithms for ML improve their performance the more data they have collected via software. ML tasks can be processed up to 10,000 times faster than with a classic processor.

Intel Core i5-6600K Characteristic AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
-- AI hardware --
-- AI specifications --

Internal Graphics

Graphics (iGPU) integrated into the processor not only enable image output without having to rely on a dedicated graphics solution, but can also efficiently accelerate video playback.

Intel HD Graphics 530 GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Raven Ridge)
0.35 GHz GPU frequency 1.10 GHz
1.15 GHz GPU (Turbo) --
9 GPU Generation 8
14 nm Technology 14 nm
3 Max. displays 3
24 Compute units 8
192 Shader 512
No Hardware Raytracing No
No Frame Generation No
32 GB Max. GPU Memory 2 GB
12 DirectX Version 12

Hardware codec support

A photo or video codec that is accelerated in hardware can greatly accelerate the working speed of a processor and extend the battery life of notebooks or smartphones when playing videos.

Intel HD Graphics 530 GPU AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Raven Ridge)
Decode / Encode Codec h265 / HEVC (8 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode Codec h265 / HEVC (10 bit) Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec h264 Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VP9 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode Codec VP8 Decode / Encode
No Codec AV1 No
Decode / Encode Codec AVC Decode / Encode
Decode Codec VC-1 Decode
Decode / Encode Codec JPEG Decode / Encode

Memory & PCIe

Up to 64 GB of memory in a maximum of 2 memory channels is supported by the Intel Core i5-6600K, while the AMD Ryzen 5 2600H supports a maximum of 32 GB of memory with a maximum memory bandwidth of 51.2 GB/s enabled.

Intel Core i5-6600K Characteristic AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
DDR4-2133, DDR3-1600 Memory DDR4-3200
64 GB Max. Memory 32 GB
2 (Dual Channel) Memory channels 2 (Dual Channel)
34.1 GB/s Max. Bandwidth 51.2 GB/s
No ECC Yes
-- L2 Cache --
6.00 MB L3 Cache 4.00 MB
3.0 PCIe version 3.0
16 PCIe lanes 12
15.8 GB/s PCIe Bandwidth 11.8 GB/s

Thermal Management

The Intel Core i5-6600K has a TDP of 91 W. The TDP of the AMD Ryzen 5 2600H is 45 W. System integrators use the TDP of the processor as a guide when dimensioning the cooling solution.

Intel Core i5-6600K Characteristic AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
91 W TDP (PL1 / PBP) 45 W
-- TDP (PL2) --
-- TDP up 35 W
-- TDP down 54 W
-- Tjunction max. 95 °C

Technical details

The Intel Core i5-6600K has 6.00 MB cache and is manufactured in 14 nm. The cache of AMD Ryzen 5 2600H is at 4.00 MB. The processor is manufactured in 14 nm.

Intel Core i5-6600K Characteristic AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
14 nm Technology 14 nm
Monolithic Chip design Chiplet
x86-64 (64 bit) Instruction set (ISA) x86-64 (64 bit)
SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 ISA extensions SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
LGA 1151 Socket FP5
VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d Virtualization AMD-V, SVM
Yes AES-NI Yes
Windows 10, Linux Operating systems Windows 10, Linux
Q3/2015 Release date Q4/2018
280 $ Release price 195 $
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Average performance in benchmarks

⌀ Single core performance in 1 CPU benchmarks
⌀ Multi core performance in 2 CPU benchmarks

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
1106 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
834 (75%)

Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 5 is a cross plattform benchmark that heavily uses the systems memory. A fast memory will push the result a lot. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
3631 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
2765 (76%)

iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)

The theoretical computing performance of the internal graphics unit of the processor with simple accuracy (32 bit) in GFLOPS. GFLOPS indicates how many billion floating point operations the iGPU can perform per second.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
Intel HD Graphics 530 @ 1.15 GHz
442 (39%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Raven Ridge) @ 1.10 GHz
1126 (100%)

Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

Some of the CPUs listed below have been benchmarked by CPU-monkey. However the majority of CPUs have not been tested and the results have been estimated by a CPU-monkey’s secret proprietary formula. As such they do not accurately reflect the actual Passmark CPU mark values and are not endorsed by PassMark Software Pty Ltd.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
6318 (80%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
7890 (100%)

Cinebench 2024 (Single-Core)

The Cinebench 2024 benchmark is based on the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxon's 3D program Cinema 4D. The benchmark runs are each 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
65 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench 2024 (Multi-Core)

The Multi-Core test of the Cinebench 2024 benchmark uses all cpu cores to render using the Redshift rendering engine, which is also used in Maxons Cinema 4D. The benchmark run is 10 minutes long to test whether the processor is limited by its heat generation.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
222 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
1041 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R23 is the successor of Cinebench R20 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
3965 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The single-core benchmark only evaluates the performance of the fastest CPU core, the number of CPU cores in a processor is irrelevant here.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
1359 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)

Geekbench 6 is a benchmark for modern computers, notebooks and smartphones. What is new is an optimized utilization of newer CPU architectures, e.g. based on the big.LITTLE concept and combining CPU cores of different sizes. The multi-core benchmark evaluates the performance of all of the processor's CPU cores. Virtual thread improvements such as AMD SMT or Intel's Hyper-Threading have a positive impact on the benchmark result.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
3985 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
395 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R20 is the successor of Cinebench R15 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
1572 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Blender 2.81 (bmw27)

Blender is a free 3D graphics software for rendering (creating) 3D bodies, which can also be textured and animated in the software. The Blender benchmark creates predefined scenes and measures the time (s) required for the entire scene. The shorter the time required, the better. We selected bmw27 as the benchmark scene.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
486.5 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Single-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
459 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (Multi-Core)

The CPU-Z benchmark measures a processor's performance by measuring the time it takes the system to complete all benchmark calculations. The faster the benchmark is completed, the higher the score.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.50 GHz
1621 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The single-core test only uses one CPU core, the amount of cores or hyperthreading ability doesn't count.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.90 GHz
166 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.60 GHz
0 (0%)

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)

Cinebench R15 is the successor of Cinebench 11.5 and is also based on the Cinema 4 Suite. Cinema 4 is a worldwide used software to create 3D forms. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
Intel Core i5-6600K Intel Core i5-6600K
4C 4T @ 3.60 GHz
600 (100%)
AMD Ryzen 5 2600H AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
4C 8T @ 3.20 GHz
0 (0%)

Devices using this processor

Intel Core i5-6600K AMD Ryzen 5 2600H
Unknown HP Pavilion All-in-One 24-xa0023ng

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