Ryzen 5 5600H vs Pentium E5300

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Aggregate performance score

Pentium E5300
2008
2 cores / 2 threads, 65 Watt
0.58
Ryzen 5 5600H
2021
6 cores / 12 threads, 45 Watt
11.00
+1797%

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Pentium E5300 by a whopping 1797% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

Comparing Pentium E5300 and Ryzen 5 5600H processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in performance ranking2707665
Place by popularitynot in top-10044
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.04no data
Market segmentDesktop processorLaptop
Seriesno dataAMD Cezanne (Zen 3, Ryzen 5000)
Architecture codenameWolfdale (2008−2010)Cezanne-H (Zen 3)
Release dateNovember 2008 (15 years ago)7 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$64no data
Current price$36 (0.6x MSRP)no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Pentium E5300 and Ryzen 5 5600H 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 speed2.6 GHz3.3 GHz
Boost clock speed2.6 GHz4.2 GHz
L1 cache64 KB (per core)384 KB
L2 cache2 MB (shared)3 MB
L3 cache0 KB16 MB
Chip lithography45 nm7 nm
Die size82 mm2no data
Maximum core temperature74 °Cno data
Number of transistors228 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplierNoNo
VID voltage range0.85V-1.3625Vno data

Compatibility

Information on Pentium E5300 and Ryzen 5 5600H 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 configuration1no data
SocketLGA775FP6
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt45 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Pentium E5300 and Ryzen 5 5600H. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataDDR4-3200/LPDDR4-4266 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-+
FMAno data+
AVXno data+
Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST)+no data
Turbo Boost Technology-no data
Hyper-Threading Technology-no data
Idle States+no data
Thermal Monitoring+no data
Demand Based Switching-no data
FSB parity-no data
StatusDiscontinuedno data

Security technologies

Pentium E5300 and Ryzen 5 5600H technologies aimed at improving security, for example, by protecting against hacks.

TXT-no data
EDB+no data

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Pentium E5300 and Ryzen 5 5600H are enumerated here.

AMD-Vno data+
VT-d-no data

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Pentium E5300 and Ryzen 5 5600H. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1, DDR2, DDR3DDR4

Graphics specifications

General parameters of integrated GPUs, if any.

Integrated graphics cardno dataAMD Radeon RX Vega 7

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 E5300 0.58
Ryzen 5 5600H 11.00
+1797%

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Pentium E5300 by 1797% 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 E5300 899
Ryzen 5 5600H 17016
+1793%

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Pentium E5300 by 1793% 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 E5300 293
Ryzen 5 5600H 1614
+451%

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Pentium E5300 by 451% 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 E5300 474
Ryzen 5 5600H 5792
+1122%

Ryzen 5 5600H outperforms Pentium E5300 by 1122% in GeekBench 5 Multi-Core.

Gaming performance

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 0.58 11.00
Physical cores 2 6
Threads 2 12
Chip lithography 45 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 45 Watt

The Ryzen 5 5600H is our recommended choice as it beats the Pentium E5300 in performance tests.

Note that Pentium E5300 is a desktop processor while Ryzen 5 5600H is a notebook one.


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