AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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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AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Price

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$ 58.40

$ 76.92 significantly less expensive

$ 135.32

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points

6267 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

8333 points

38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

5604 points

40% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

5431 points

40% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3194 points

5664 points

77% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

150.92 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points

8330 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points

1980 points

88% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

8600 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

2052 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.50 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz

4.4 GHz

22% 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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Ryzen 5 5600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600 is faster than the Ryzen 5 1600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1600. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 5600 also has significantly more 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 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.