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日本[Comparison] AMD Ryzen 5 6600H vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600H – An upgrade isn’t necesarry
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.
Results are from the Cinebench R23 CPU test (the higher the score, the better)
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.
