PCMark 10 and Geekbench
We are now going to show our synthetic benchmark testing first, and then game performance will follow afterward.
PCMark 10
In this first graph, we are looking at PCMark 10 standard benchmark test. PCMark 10 runs a gauntlet of different office, content creation, and desktop workloads. This benchmark puts the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X slightly above the new Intel Core i5-11600K, about 2%. That’s rather close, and can be considered a similar performance. The new Intel Core i5-11600K has made a very big improvement over the previous generation Core i5-10600K, it’s 7% faster.
In this graph, we are looking at PCMark 10’s Applications Benchmark. This test is very specific, it tests the performance of Microsoft Office, using Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and even Explorer. Once again, we see the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X on top, just slightly edging out the new Intel Core i5-11600K. The new Intel Core i5-11600K has improved upon the last generation CPU by 9% which is significant in office performance.
Geekbench 5
Next up we have the latest version of Geekbench 5. This benchmark tests overall CPU performance and can show us a result in both multi-core and single-core performance. In the graph above we have the multi-core performance. This test, similar to PCMark shows the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X to be on top in multi-core performance. We also see that the new Intel Core i5-10600K has improved upon the last generation by 15% which is quite a good bump from the previous CPU.
In this graph we are now looking at single-core performance. This one is really interesting, as it appears that in terms of single-core performance the Intel Core i5-11600K is superior to everything else. It’s 6% faster than the Ryzen 5 5600X and 30% faster than the Core i5-10600K.