AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 49.49 significantly less expensive

$ 149.48

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points

6416 points

47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

8665 points

45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

5694 points

48% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

5516 points

48% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points

5539 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

139.36 points

31% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points

7974 points

63% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points

2039 points

75% 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

3.4 GHz

4.59 GHz

35% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.6 GHz

17% 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

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

406th of 1,091

227th of 1,091

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Ryzen 5 5600GT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600GT is faster than the Ryzen 5 2600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2600. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600GT 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 and 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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.