AMD Ryzen 5 5600H vs Intel Core i7-6650U. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD Ryzen Intel Core i7
• Generation
  4 6
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000H Intel Core i 6000U

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• Frequency
  3.30 GHz 2.20 GHz
• CPU Cores
  6 2
• Turbo (1 Core)
  4.20 GHz 3.40 GHz
• CPU Threads
  12 4
• Hyperthreading
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  No No
• Core architecture
  normal normal

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  AMD Radeon 6 Graphics (Renoir) Intel Iris Graphics 540
• GPU frequency
  1.60 GHz 0.30 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 1.05 GHz
• Execution units
  6 48
• Shader
  384 384
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 32 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  9 9
• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Technology
  7 nm 14 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2020 Q3/2015

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode / Encode No
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode No
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core i7-6650U and AMD Ryzen 5 5600H. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR3L-1600 SO-DIMMDDR4-2133 SO-DIMMLPDDR3-1866
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• ECC
  No No
• Memory channels
  2 2
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe lanes
  12 12

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 5600H and Intel Core i7-6650U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  45 W 15 W
• TDP up
  54 W --
• TDP down
  35 W 9.5 W
• Tjunction max.
  105 °C 100 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5600H and AMD Ryzen 5 5600H, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2
• L2-Cache
  4.00 MB --
• L3-Cache
  16.00 MB 4.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cezanne (Zen 3) Skylake U
• Technology
  7 nm 14 nm
• Socket
  FP6 BGA 1356
• Release date
  Q2/2021 Q3/2015