AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5980HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 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

4496 points

4629 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6035 points

8% slightly better gaming score

5577 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3997 points

4389 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3874 points

4371 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3194 points

9299 points

191% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.47 points

186.26 points

85% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4641 points

7738 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1085 points

1930 points

77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.2 GHz

3.3 GHz

3% 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

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

390th of 1,089

378th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1600 vs Ryzen 9 5980HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5980HX is faster than the Ryzen 5 1600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 1600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 1600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 1600. Also, the Ryzen 9 5980HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 5980HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600 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 9 5980HX has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 1600. 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 1600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.