[Comparison] AMD Ryzen 5 6600H vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600H – An upgrade isn’t necesarry

LaptopMedia.com Comparisons [Comparison] AMD Ryzen 5 6600H vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600H - An upgrade isn't necesarry

From: Severin Kolakov 21 September 2022 / 01:13 0

While Intel is ultimately wiping the floor with AMD in the CPU market when it comes to pure performance, their Zen 3+ processors are still valuable offerings that can perform better in certain conditions.

While Ryzen 6000’s rollout has been pretty slow, we managed to snag a laptop with the Ryzen 5 6600H, which allows us to do some insightful comparisons between it and its predecessor, the Ryzen 5 5600H.

While the two SKUs share a lot of similarities, mainly the core and thread count, the new Zen 3+ CPU brings a not-so-subtle cache increase, along with a new iGPU, which is used even in the highest-powered gaming laptops, in order to preserve battery.

Here is our Top Laptop CPU Ranking, which has the best laptop CPUs in a list, based on performance.

Today we are comparing the AMD Ryzen 5 6600H against the Ryzen 5 5600H.

You can find more information about both CPUs here: AMD Ryzen 5 6600H / Ryzen 5 5600H

Specs table

	AMD Ryzen 5 6600H	AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
Architecture	Zen 3+	Zen 3
Cores / Threads	6/12	6/12
Clock Speeds – Base/Boost	3.30 – 4.50 GHz	3.30 – 4.20 GHz
Cache	19MB	16MB
Lithography	6nm	7nm
TDP	45W	45W
Memory type	DDR5-4800, LPDDR5-5200	DDR4-3200, LPDDR4x-4267
Integrated GPU	AMD Radeon 660M	AMD Radeon RX Vega 7 (R4000/5000, 35/45W)

CPU benchmarks

The new Ryzen 5 6600H is only slightly faster in 3D Rendering, offering an 8% higher score inside Cinebench 20. Moving over to Photoshop, the older processor is a tiny bit quicker, finishing the test with a lead of 0.1 seconds.

3D Rendering

Results are from the Cinebench R23 CPU test (the higher the score, the better)

AMD Ryzen 5 6600H Lenovo IdeaPad Gaming 3 15

10305

AMD Ryzen 5 5600H Lenovo Legion 5 Pro 16

9621

Conclusion

While the Ryzen 5 6600H doesn’t sound like that much of an upgrade, you have to keep in mind that this is the first laptop with this CPU that we’ve tested, and it’s a pretty budget offering, so we can expect better-performing devices to come in the future. If you currently are thinking about buying a Zen 3 or a Zen 3+ laptop, both will serve you well for the years to come, as AMD didn’t do any drastic changes from one gen to the next.