AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points
4862 points
45% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
6603 points
27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
4311 points
55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
4176 points
56% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points
4965 points
33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
116.70 points
80% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points
10416 points
126% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points
5738 points
53% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points
1625 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
5695 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
1590 points
43% significantly 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
6% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
4.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

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
358th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 1500X vs Ryzen 5 5600H specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600H is faster than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1500X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 5 5600H has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600H has 6 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 1500X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1500X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600H. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600H outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1500X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5600H has significantly more L2 cache when compared to 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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