AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600

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 2600

Price

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$ 97.99

$ 2.00 slightly less expensive

$ 99.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4307 points

4361 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5864 points

5968 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3810 points

3844 points

0.89% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3690 points

3721 points

0.84% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3469 points

0.14% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

3464 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.40 points

106.27 points

1% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4930 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

4788 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1138 points

0.53% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1132 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4754 points

4891 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1136 points

1163 points

2% slightly 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

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

3.9 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB

Identical

576 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

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

409th of 1,089

404th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Ryzen 5 2600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 2600 performs better than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 1600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2600. The Ryzen 5 2600 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 1600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.