AMD Ryzen 7 2700U vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600U. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• Segment
  Mobile Mobile
• Family
  AMD Ryzen AMD Ryzen
• Generation
  1 5
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 2000U AMD Ryzen 6000U
• Predecessor
  -- AMD Ryzen 5 5600U

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
  2.20 GHz 2.90 GHz
• Turbo (1 Core)
  3.80 GHz 4.40 GHz
• 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 Vega 10 Graphics AMD Radeon RX 660M
• GPU frequency
  1.30 GHz 1.90 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo No turbo
• Execution units
  10 8
• Shader
  640 512
• Max. GPU Memory
  2 GB 8 GB
• Max. displays
  3 3
• Generation
  8 9
• Technology
  14 nm 6 nm
• Release date
  Q1/2018 Q1/2022

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 Decode / Encode
• h264
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP9
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VP8
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No Decode
• AVC
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  Decode Decode
• JPEG
  Decode / Encode Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 6600U and AMD Ryzen 7 2700U. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-2400 DDR5-4800LPDDR5-6400
• Max. Memory
  32 GB 64 GB
• ECC
  Yes No
• Memory channels
  2 2

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 2700U and AMD Ryzen 5 6600U to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL1)
  15 W 15 W
• TDP up
  25 W 28 W
• TDP down
  12 W --
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C 105 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 2700U and AMD Ryzen 7 2700U, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  -- 4.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  4.00 MB 16.00 MB
• Architecture
  Raven Ridge (Zen) Rembrandt (Zen 3+)
• Technology
  14 nm 6 nm
• Socket
  AM4 FP7
• Release date
  Q4/2017 Q1/2022