AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus — Specifications, performance, tests

Differences
Specifications Benchmarks Testimonials

Differences

Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 5 5600

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Place in the overall ranking

(based on several benchmarks)

115 place
Lower stated TDP / base power

Power limits alone do not measure performance per watt.

65 W 125 W

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)

91 place
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)

132 place
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)

70 place
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)

123 place
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)

135 place
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)

197 place
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark

123 place

Reasons to consider
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus

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Higher clock speed

Around 6% better clock speed

3.70 GHz 3.5 GHz
More number of cores

18 more cores

24 6
Higher turbo clock speed

Around 25 % higher specified turbo frequency

5.50 GHz 4.4 GHz

Specifications

Technical data

AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus

CPU family and group

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

CPU group

AMD Ryzen 5000 -
Family

Ryzen Intel Core Ultra 200
Form Factor

Desktops / Boxed Processor -
Generation

4 -
Predecessor

AMD Ryzen 5 4600H -
Segment

Desktop / Server Desktop
Series

Ryzen 5000 Series -

CPU Technical specs

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

Base Frequency

3.5 GHz 3.7 GHz
Core architecture

normal -
Core Configuration

6x -
CPU Cores

6 24
CPU Threads

12 24
Hyperthreading / SMT

Yes -
Max. Boost Clock

4.4 GHz -
Overclocking

Yes -
Turbo Frequency (1 Core)

4.4 GHz 5.5 GHz
Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)

4.2 GHz -
E-core Base Clock

- 3.2 GHz
E-core Max Turbo

- 4.7 GHz
Efficient Cores

- 16
P-core Base Clock

- 3.7 GHz
P-core Max Turbo

- 5.4 GHz
Performance Cores

- 8

IGPU

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

None -

Hardware codec support

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

AV1

No -
H.264 / AVC

No -
h265 / HEVC (8 bit)

No -
h265 / HEVC (10 bit)

No -
JPEG

No -
VC-1

No -
VP8

No -
VP9

No -

Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus and AMD Ryzen 5 5600. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

ECC

No -
Max. Memory

64 GB 256 GB
Memory Bandwidth

51.2 GB/s -
Memory channels

2 2
Memory type

DDR4 DDR5-7200
PCIe

PCIe 4.0 -
System Memory Specification

3200 -

Encryption

AES-NI

Yes -

Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

Default TDP

65 W -
Maximum Operating Temperature

90 °C -
TDP (PL1, legacy label)

65 W -
TDP (PL2)

- 250 W
TDP down

45 W -
TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)

- 125 W

Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

Architecture

Vermeer (Zen 3) Arrow Lake
Codename

Vermeer -
Documents

Technical data sheet -
Instruction set (ISA)

x86-64 (64 bit) -
ISA extensions

SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 -
L1-Cache

0.375 MB -
L2-Cache

3 MB 40 MB
L3-Cache

32 MB 36 MB
Manufacturer product ID (boxed)

100-100000927BOX -
Manufacturer product ID (tray)

100-000000927 -
Operating systems

Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit -
Release date

2022-04-04 Q1/2026
Socket

AM4 FCLGA1851
Technology

TSMC 7nm FinFET TSMC N3B
Thermal Solution (PIB)

AMD Wraith Stealth -
Virtualization

AMD-V, SVM -
Intel Smart Cache

- 36 MB

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Shared tests with results for both models: 6

Blender Cycles

Each row uses one Blender version, operating system and compute backend.

Test and settings	AMD Ryzen 5 5600	Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus	Result difference¹
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Linux	153.28919 samples/min Submissions: 31	646.387382 samples/min Submissions: 14	+321.7 %
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Windows	154.233426 samples/min Submissions: 28	615.796227 samples/min Submissions: 87	+299.3 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Linux	165.579721 samples/min Submissions: 7	677.377611 samples/min Submissions: 9	+309.1 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Windows	158.110437 samples/min Submissions: 25	634.586075 samples/min Submissions: 117	+301.4 %
Blender 5.1.0 / CPU / Windows	155.788815 samples/min Submissions: 15	642.985807 samples/min Submissions: 25	+312.7 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Windows	149.032866 samples/min Submissions: 110	611.124396 samples/min Submissions: 20	+310.1 %

¹ Difference of the second result relative to the first in that row. No percentage is calculated for different upscaling algorithms. This compares published results, not a universal performance index.

Individual model tests

These results have no shared test of both models with the same version and settings. They are shown separately without a percentage difference.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Linux 174.553072 samples/min
Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Windows 149.964113 samples/min
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Windows 143.422344 samples/min
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Linux 177.385993 samples/min
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Windows 140.994483 samples/min
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Linux 179.371336 samples/min
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Windows 141.645759 samples/min
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Linux 171.717667 samples/min

More results: 2

Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Windows 144.564638 samples/min
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Linux 168.629021 samples/min

Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus

Results with primary test sources

Published measurements are separate from the archived index. Incomplete conditions and unknown run counts do not support ranking positions or calculated performance differences.

Model	Test	Result	Reported conditions
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus	Cinebench 2026 / multi-core	10063 points	Graphics card: Asus ROG Strix RTX 4090 OC Edition System RAM: 32 GB DDR5-8200 CL40-52-52-131 CUDIMM OS: Windows 11 23H2 Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Hero BIOS: 1501 Driver: GeForce Game Ready Driver 572.70 WHQL Profile: Intel Default Profile
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus	Cinebench 2026 / single-core	598 points	Graphics card: Asus ROG Strix RTX 4090 OC Edition System RAM: 32 GB DDR5-8200 CL40-52-52-131 CUDIMM OS: Windows 11 23H2 Motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus Z890 Hero BIOS: 1501 Driver: GeForce Game Ready Driver 572.70 WHQL Profile: Intel Default Profile

Individual system tests

Results were obtained on the reported systems. Test versions and settings remain separate; incomplete conditions do not support calculated model performance differences.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 24 threads / windows

Model	Result	Reported conditions
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus	13359.874952 H/s	RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 24 threads / windows System RAM: 48 GB OS: Windows NT 10.0 Motherboard: ASRock / Z890 Pro-A Duration: 74.851 s User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

RandomX / XMRig 6.21.0 / 1M / 12 threads / windows

Model	Result	Reported conditions
AMD Ryzen 5 5600	7150.211646 H/s	RandomX / XMRig 6.21.0 / 1M / 12 threads / windows System RAM: 32 GB OS: Windows NT 10.0 Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. / B550M DS3H Duration: 139.856 s User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.