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AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
The budget gaming laptop chip of its era. Six Zen 3 cores and 12 threads paired with a discrete GPU delivered playable frame rates for well under $1,000, and the 5600H remains a competent everyday processor years later.
Pros
- Six Zen 3 cores keep pace with entry gaming GPUs
- Very affordable in budget gaming laptops
- Same 16MB L3 cache as the 8-core 5800H
- Modest heat output for a 45W-class chip
Cons
- Weak multi-core throughput by modern standards
- Vega 7 iGPU is only good for desktop work
- DDR4-only memory support
- Battery life trails newer 6nm and 4nm designs
Below average
Computed from specs & benchmarks via our public methodology.
Full specifications
Everything we track for the AMD Ryzen 5 5600H
General
- Announced
- 2021
- Process
- 7 nm
- Base TDP
- 45 W
- Max TDP
- 54 W
Cores & Clocks
- Cores
- 6
- Performance cores
- 6
- Threads
- 12
- Base clock
- 3.3 GHz
- Boost clock
- 4.2 GHz
- L3 cache
- 16 MB
Integrated GPU
- iGPU
- AMD Radeon Vega 7
- iGPU clock
- 1,800 MHz
Memory
- Memory support
- DDR4-3200 / LPDDR4X-4266
- Max memory
- 64 GB
Benchmarks
- Geekbench 6 (single)
- 1,860Bottom 16%
- Geekbench 6 (multi)
- 7,400Bottom 21%
- Cinebench R23 (single)
- 1,420Bottom 22%
- Cinebench R23 (multi)
- 9,900Bottom 38%
- PassMark
- 16,345Bottom 35%
- 3DMark Time Spy Graphics (iGPU)
- 980Bottom 35%
Quick answers
Is the AMD Ryzen 5 5600H good in 2026?
The AMD Ryzen 5 5600H earns an Inno Score of 43.6/100 (“Below average”) based on its specs and benchmark results. The budget gaming laptop chip of its era. Six Zen 3 cores and 12 threads paired with a discrete GPU delivered playable frame rates for well under $1,000, and the 5600H remains a competent everyday processor years later.
Does the AMD Ryzen 5 5600H count as "Core i7 or equivalent"?
Its PassMark CPU Mark average is 16,345 (cpubenchmark.net, retrieved Sep 26, 2026), which puts it in Tier B of our CPU tier checker: recent mainstream Core i7 / Ryzen 7, plus older H-series chips. Requirement pages word this differently, so check the exact wording with your department.
What are the key specs of the AMD Ryzen 5 5600H?
Cores: 6 · Threads: 12 · Boost clock: 4.2 GHz · Base TDP: 45 W
What are the closest alternatives to the AMD Ryzen 5 5600H?
Its closest rivals on InnoReviews are Intel Core i7-1165G7, AMD Ryzen 5 5500U, AMD Ryzen 7 4700U — open the comparison pages for a spec-by-spec breakdown.
