Intel Core i5-650 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare Intel Core 2 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 66.40
$ 128.90 significantly less expensive
$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1013 points
8640 points
752% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

2051 points
12252 points
497% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

747 points
7496 points
903% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

716 points
7243 points
911% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

15.60 points
233.29 points
1395% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

943 points
14957 points
1486% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

459 points
3338 points
627% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

2
6
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.9 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.46 GHz
5.4 GHz
56% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

73 W
65 W
12% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

952nd of 1,099
123rd of 1,099

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2010 February
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Core i5-650 vs Ryzen 5 9600X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 9600X performs better than the Core i5-650. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-650 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Core i5-650 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-650. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-650. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 9600X outputs less heat than Core i5-650 thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i5-650 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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