amd ryzen 5 6600u vs intel core i5 1240p
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We compared two CPUs AMD Ryzen 5 6600U (Laptop) 6-cores against Intel Core i5 1240P (Laptop) 12-cores. In this comparison page, we check which of these two processor has better performance in benchmark results, Games, architecture, price and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 6600U
- Consumes up to 46% less energy than the Intel Core i5 1240P – 15 vs 28 Watt
- Has 4 MB larger L3 cache size
- 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (4.5 GHz vs 4.4 GHz)
- More modern manufacturing process – 6 versus 7
Advantages of Intel Core i5 1240P
- Newer released 2022 years later
- Has 6 more physical cores
Benchmarks
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 (Multi-Core)
Specifications
General
| AMD Ryzen 5 6600U | Intel Core i5 1240P | |
| Vendor | AMD | Intel |
| Released | January 4 2022 | January 4 2022 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Rembrandt U | Alder Lake-P |
| Socket | FP7 | FCBGA1744 |
| Integrated GPU | AMD Radeon 660M | Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible |
Performance
| AMD Ryzen 5 6600U | Intel Core i5 1240P | |
| Cores | 6 | 12 |
| Threads | 12 | 16 |
| Base Frequency | 2.9 GHz | 1.7 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency | 4.5 GHz | 4.4 GHz |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) | 80K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 1.25 MB (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 16 MB (shared) | 12 MB (shared) |
Power
| AMD Ryzen 5 6600U | Intel Core i5 1240P | |
| Fabrication process | 6 nm | Intel 7 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 15 W | 28 W |
| Max. temperature | 95°C | 100°C |
Memory support
| AMD Ryzen 5 6600U | Intel Core i5 1240P | |
| Memory types | DDR5-4800 | DDR5-4800, DDR4-3200, LPDDR5-5200, LPDDR4x-4267 |
| Memory Size | GB | 64 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | - | - |
| ECC Support | No | No |
iGPU
| AMD Ryzen 5 6600U | Intel Core i5 1240P | |
| Integrated Graphics | AMD Radeon 660M | Intel® Iris® Xe Graphics eligible |
| GPU Base Clock | 1500 MHz | 300 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | MHz | 1.3 MHz |
| Shading Units | 384 | 640 |
| TMUs | 24 | 40 |
| ROPs | 16 | 20 |
| Execution Units | 80 | |
| TGP | 15 W | 15 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Misc
| AMD Ryzen 5 6600U | Intel Core i5 1240P | |
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 5 6600U official page | Intel Core i5 1240P official page |
| PCI Express Version | 4 | 4 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 20 |