AMD EPYC 74F3 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

Compare AMD 9 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 2398.95
$ 222.50
$ 2176.45 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5669 points
7604 points
34% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7130 points
10588 points
48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5211 points
6642 points
27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5104 points
6422 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.28 points
173.75 points
27% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12689 points
17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
10810 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1438 points
2486 points
72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

9
49% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

18
49% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.19 GHz
4.35 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

240 W
65 W
269% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4.5 MiB
6 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

278th of 1,089
160th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

EPYC 74F3 vs Ryzen 5 8600G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 8600G is faster than the EPYC 74F3. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 74F3 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more cores with 9 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8600G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the EPYC 74F3. The Ryzen 5 8600G outputs less heat than EPYC 74F3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 8600G has slightly more L2 cache than the EPYC 74F3. Despite this, the EPYC 74F3 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8600G.

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 EPYC 74F3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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