AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600

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

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$ 79.99
$ 20.00 slightly less expensive
$ 99.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points
4361 points
30% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
5968 points
15% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
3844 points
38% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
3721 points
39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points
7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
3464 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
106.27 points
64% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points
4788 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points
1132 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
4891 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
1163 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
3.9 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

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
404th 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
2018 April

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 2600 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 2600 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 2600 has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1500X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 1500X. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1500X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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