AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 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

$ 58.40
$ 210.60 significantly less expensive
$ 269.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4496 points
9859 points
119% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points
9924 points
64% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points
9836 points
146% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points
9828 points
153% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3194 points
10192 points
219% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points
313.97 points
212% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

6468 points
20634 points
219% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4485 points
11764 points
162% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1048 points
2141 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points
11794 points
154% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points
2200 points
102% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz
3.7 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.6 GHz
4.8 GHz
33% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
768 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
6 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089
94th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Ryzen 9 5900X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 1600 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU because of its 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 9 5900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 1600. The Ryzen 9 5900X 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.

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