AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7430U

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

4361 points

4404 points

0.99% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

6525 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

3759 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

3630 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

86.99 points

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

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

4.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

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

404th of 1,089

400th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

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 7430U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7430U 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.

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 2600 has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7430U. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7430U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7430U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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.