Intel Core i5-6600K vs AMD Ryzen 5 2500U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  Intel Core i 6000 AMD Ryzen 2000U
• Family
  Intel Core i5 Ryzen
• Generation
  6 1
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Mobile
• Successor
  Intel Core i5-7600K -
• Form Factor
  - Laptops / Desktops
• Series
  - Ryzen 2000 Series

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  3.5 GHz 2 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• CPU Cores
  4 4
• CPU Threads
  4 8
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  No Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  3.9 GHz 3.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (4 Cores)
  3.6 GHz 3 GHz
• Max. Boost Clock
  - 3.6 GHz

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

• DirectX Version
  12 12
• Execution units
  24 8
• Generation
  9 8
• GPU Frequency
  350 MHz 1100 MHz
• GPU name
  Intel HD Graphics 530 Radeon Vega 8 Graphics
• GPU Turbo
  1150 MHz No turbo
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  64 GB 2 GB
• Release date
  Q3/2015 Q1/2018
• Shader
  192 512
• Technology
  14 nm 14 nm
• Graphics Cores
  - 8

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  Decode Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 2500U and Intel Core i5-6600K. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  No Yes
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 32 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR3-1600DDR4-2133 DDR4
• PCIe lanes
  16 12
• PCIe version
  3.0 3.0
• PCIe
  - PCIe 3.0
• System Memory Specification
  - 2400

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP Intel Core i5-6600K and AMD Ryzen 5 2500U Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Maximum Operating Temperature
  - 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  91 W 15 W
• TDP down
  - 12 W
• TDP up
  - 25 W
• Configurable TDP
  - 12-25 W
• Default TDP
  - 15 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by Intel Core i5-6600K and AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Skylake S Raven Ridge (Zen)
• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  - 2 MB
• L3-Cache
  6 MB 4 MB
• Release date
  Q3/2015 2017-10-26
• Socket
  LGA 1151 FP5
• Technology
  14 nm 14nm
• Virtualization
  VT-x, VT-x EPT, VT-d AMD-V, SVM
• Codename
  - Raven Ridge
• L1-Cache
  - 0.375 MB
• Manufacturer product ID (tray)
  - YM2500C4T4MFB
• Operating systems
  - Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit