AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 1600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 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

$ 79.99
$ 58.40
$ 21.59 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points
4496 points
34% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
6035 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
3997 points
43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
3874 points
45% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points
16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
3194 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
100.47 points
55% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points
6468 points
40% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points
4485 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1048 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
4641 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1085 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
3.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
576 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

499th of 1,089
390th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2017 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Ryzen 5 1600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 1600 beats the Ryzen 5 1500X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 1600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1500X has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600. Also, the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 1600 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1500X. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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