Ryzen 5 2600 vs Pentium B950

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium B950
2011
2 cores / 2 threads, 35 Watt
0.65
Ryzen 5 2600
2018
6 cores / 12 threads, 65 Watt
8.53
+1212%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by a whopping 1212% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium B950 and Ryzen 5 2600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking2653834
Place by popularitynot in top-10024
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data19.20
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesIntel PentiumAMD Ryzen 5
Architecture codenameSandy Bridge (2011−2013)Pinnacle Riege (Zen+)
Release date19 June 2011 (13 years ago)19 April 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$134$199
Current price$90 (0.7x MSRP)$147 (0.7x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Pentium B950 and Ryzen 5 2600 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 cores2 (Dual-core)6 (Hexa-Core)
Threads212
Base clock speed2.1 GHz3.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2.1 GHz3.9 GHz
L1 cache64K (per core)96K (per core)
L2 cache256K (per core)3 MB
L3 cache2 MB (shared)16 MB (shared)
Chip lithography32 nm12 nm
Die size131 mm2192 mm2
Maximum core temperature85 °C95 °C
Number of transistors504 million4,800 million
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplierNoYes

Compatibility

Information on Pentium B950 and Ryzen 5 2600 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 configuration11 (Uniprocessor)
SocketPGA988AM4
Power consumption (TDP)35 Watt65 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium B950 and Ryzen 5 2600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsIntel® SSE4.1, Intel® SSE4.2DDR4-2933 RAM, PCIe 3, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4A, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX, AVX2, BMI2, ABM, FMA, ADX, SMEP, SMAP, SMT, CPB, AES-NI, RDRAND, RDSEED, SHA, SME
AES-NI-+
FMA++
AVXno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
My WiFi-no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+no data
Flex Memory Access+no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
FDI+no data
Fast Memory Access+no data
StatusDiscontinuedno data

Security technologies

Pentium B950 and Ryzen 5 2600 technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data
Anti-Theft-no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium B950 and Ryzen 5 2600 are enumerated here.

AMD-Vno data+
VT-d-no data
VT-x-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium B950 and Ryzen 5 2600. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR3DDR4
Maximum memory size16 GB128 GB
Max memory channels22
Maximum memory bandwidth21.3 GB/s46.933 GB/s
ECC memory support-+

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardIntel® HD Graphics for 2nd Generation Intel® Processors-
Quick Sync Video--
Clear Video--
Clear Video HD--
Graphics max frequency1.1 GHz-
InTru 3D--

Graphics interfaces

Available interfaces and connections of Pentium B950 and Ryzen 5 2600 integrated GPUs.

Number of displays supported2-
eDP+-
DisplayPort+-
HDMI+-
SDVO+-
CRT+-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Pentium B950 and Ryzen 5 2600.

PCIe version2.03.0
PCI Express lanes1620

Synthetic benchmark performance

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


Combined synthetic benchmark 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.

Pentium B950 0.65
Ryzen 5 2600 8.53
+1212%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by 1212% based on our aggregate benchmark results.


Passmark

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: 68%

Pentium B950 1002
Ryzen 5 2600 13199
+1217%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by 1217% in Passmark.

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

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: 42%

Pentium B950 313
Ryzen 5 2600 1153
+268%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by 268% in GeekBench 5 Single-Core.

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

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: 42%

Pentium B950 519
Ryzen 5 2600 4852
+835%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by 835% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

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%

Pentium B950 2730
Ryzen 5 2600 4726
+73.1%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by 73% in Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core.

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

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%

Pentium B950 5255
Ryzen 5 2600 28173
+436%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by 436% in Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core.

3DMark06 CPU

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%

Pentium B950 2145
Ryzen 5 2600 9290
+333%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by 333% in 3DMark06 CPU.

wPrime 32

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%

Pentium B950 34.3
Ryzen 5 2600 5.5
+524%

Pentium B950 outperforms Ryzen 5 2600 by 524% in wPrime 32.

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

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%

Pentium B950 2
Ryzen 5 2600 14
+741%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by 741% in Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core.

TrueCrypt AES

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%

Pentium B950 0.2
Ryzen 5 2600 7.5
+4588%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by 4588% in TrueCrypt AES.

WinRAR 4.0

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: 13%

Pentium B950 1333
Ryzen 5 2600 4517
+239%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by 239% in WinRAR 4.0.

x264 encoding pass 2

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: 13%

Pentium B950 9
Ryzen 5 2600 75
+743%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by 743% in x264 encoding pass 2.

x264 encoding pass 1

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: 13%

Pentium B950 50
Ryzen 5 2600 205
+311%

Ryzen 5 2600 outperforms Pentium B950 by 311% in x264 encoding pass 1.

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.65 8.53
Recency 19 June 2011 19 April 2018
Physical cores 2 6
Threads 2 12
Cost $134 $199
Chip lithography 32 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 35 Watt 65 Watt

The Ryzen 5 2600 is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium B950 in performance tests.

Be aware that Pentium B950 is a notebook processor while Ryzen 5 2600 is a desktop one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Pentium B950 and Ryzen 5 2600, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

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