Ryzen 5 6600U performance in PassMark – a competitor to Alder Lake P

AMD’s new laptop processors codenamed Rembrandt use the improved Zen 3 Plus architecture, and we are slowly seeing their presence in more rankings. For this reason, the performance of the Ryzen 5 6600U chip in the tests PassMark It has been observed that it seems to be able to compete with the Core i7 1260P. Along with higher thermal power and clock speed, the 6600U uses better RDNA 2 integrated graphics.

After a long time, the Ryzen 5 6600U finally joined the other Zen 3 Plus models in PassMark. This mobile processor, which is used in thin and lightweight laptops as well as handheld consoles, managed to get a single core score of 3201 and a CPU Mark score of 17257. Not only these results made us see more improvement than the previous expectations compared to Ryzen 5 5600U, but also Ryzen 5 6600U managed to compete with Intel competitors such as Core i5 1240P and Core i7 1260P.

While we’re all waiting for the Ryzen 7000 Raphael processors with Zen 4 architecture as well as the Raptor Lake series, it’s easy to overlook the Zen 3+ notebook APUs, especially since the release of devices with these chips seems to be very slow. However, synthetic benchmark results show Rembrandt’s decent power.

Ryzen 5 6600U processor performance in PassMark

Although only one sample of Ryzen 5 6600U has been tested in the PassMark benchmark (and the error rate is still high), the new processor outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600U by 9.59% in single and 11.73% in multi-cores, which means that it is a good improvement in just one year. We are (especially considering the lack of architectural change). Ryzen 5 6600U lacks thermal power and higher clock speed, where we see a range of 15 to 28 watts (usually 25 watts) and a frequency of 2.9 to 4.5 GHz, while the previous model has a power of 10 to 25 watts (usually 15 watts) and a frequency of It had 2.3 to 4.2 GHz.

The Ryzen 5 6600U also performs well against Intel’s Alder Lake P models, which are really great chips but also consume a lot more power than the Red Team model. The blue team processors are superior in terms of core count, 12 cores (4 + 8) versus 6 cores and their power range is 28W (PL1) to 64W (PL2).

Considering that the 1240P is only 3.37% better in single-core and 3.11% in multi-core than the 6600U, while the 1260P is only 2.16% better in single-core and even 0.27% weaker in multi-core, while the number of cores is more and has a higher thermal power, the red team’s processor appeared brilliant at least in this benchmark. Of course, the comparison is not completely fair and the number of Ryzen 5 6600U tested samples should be increased.