Ryzen 5 5600U vs Ryzen 7 5700U

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General info

Comparing Ryzen 7 5700U and Ryzen 5 5600U processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance rating 442 461
Place by popularity 42 no data
Market segment Laptop Laptop
Series AMD Lucienne (Zen 2, Ryzen 5000) AMD Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000)
Architecture codename Lucienne U (Zen 2) (2021) Cezanne U (Zen 3) (2021−2022)
Release date 7 January 2021 (1 year ago) 7 January 2021 (1 year ago)

Technical specs

Ryzen 7 5700U and Ryzen 5 5600U basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores 8 (Octa-Core) 6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads 16 12
Base clock speed 1.8 GHz 2.3 GHz
Boost clock speed 4.3 GHz 4.2 GHz
L1 cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 cache 512K (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 cache 8 MB (shared) 16 MB (shared)
Chip lithography 7 nm 7 nm
Die size 156 mm2 180 mm2
Maximum core temperature 105 °C 105 °C
Number of transistors 9,800 million 10,700 million
64 bit support + +
Windows 11 compatibility + +

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 7 5700U and Ryzen 5 5600U compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration 1 1
Socket FP6 FP6
Thermal design power (TDP) 15 Watt 15 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 7 5700U and Ryzen 5 5600U. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensions XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT XFR, FMA3, SSE 4.2, AVX2, SMT
AES-NI + +
AVX + +

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Ryzen 7 5700U and Ryzen 5 5600U are enumerated here.

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Ryzen 7 5700U and Ryzen 5 5600U. Depending on the motherboards, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory types DDR4-3200 DDR4-3200
Maximum memory size 64 GB no data

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Ryzen 7 5700U and Ryzen 5 5600U.

Benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Overall score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 7 5700U 15.74

+3.6%

  • Passmark
  • GeekBench 5 Single-Core
  • GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
  • Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
  • Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
  • 3DMark06 CPU
  • wPrime 32
  • Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
  • Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
  • Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core
  • Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core
  • TrueCrypt AES
  • WinRAR 4.0
  • x264 encoding pass 2
  • x264 encoding pass 1

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Benchmark coverage: 69%

Ryzen 7 5700U 15873

+3.6%

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Benchmark coverage: 37%

Ryzen 5 5600U 1209

+18.6%

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Benchmark coverage: 37%

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Benchmark coverage: 20%

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Ryzen 7 5700U 31131

+14.7%

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Benchmark coverage: 19%

Ryzen 7 5700U 11662

+2.9%

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Benchmark coverage: 18%

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Benchmark coverage: 17%

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core (sometimes called Multi-Thread) is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Ryzen 7 5700U 1480

+14.7%

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Benchmark coverage: 14%

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 13%

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Benchmark coverage: 12%

Ryzen 5 5600U 6612

+75.7%

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 12%

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Benchmark coverage: 12%

Gaming performance

Advantages and disadvantages


Performance rating 15.74 15.19
Boost clock speed 4300 4200
Base clock speed 0 2300

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Competitors of Ryzen 7 5700U by Intel

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Ryzen 7 5700U from Intel is Core i7-11600H, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 2 positions in our rating.

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Competitors of Ryzen 5 5600U by Intel

We believe that the nearest equivalent to Ryzen 5 5600U from Intel is Core i7-10875H, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 1 position in our rating.

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Is Ryzen 7 better than Ryzen 5?

Yes, and in fact, the Ryzen 7 scores higher on benchmarks across the board. If you need a more powerful CPU for editing video, streaming, or playing games, then the Ryzen 7 is the ideal processor. Is there a big difference between Ryzen 5 and 7? There are definitely notable differences between the two CPUs.

What is Intel equivalent of Ryzen 5 5600U?

Power Consumption.

What Graphics does the Ryzen 5 5600U have?

In addition to the six CPU cores, the APU also integrates a Radeon RX Vega 7 integrated graphics card with 7 CUs at up to 1800 MHz.

Is Ryzen 7 better for gaming?

AMD Ryzen 7 5700G AMD's APUs are the best processors to drop into your rig if you're not going to use a discrete graphics card, but still want a modicum of gaming performance out of your system. And the AMD Ryzen 7 5700G is the best of the Zen 3 chips to deliver that.