AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 99.99
$ 77.01 significantly less expensive
$ 177.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points
8583 points
96% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points
11637 points
94% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points
7604 points
97% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points
7365 points
97% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points
6996 points
101% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points
208.44 points
96% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4788 points
12562 points
162% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1132 points
2799 points
147% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points
12876 points
163% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points
2889 points
148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
4.70 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
5.3 GHz
35% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
6 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

404th of 1,089
121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Ryzen 5 7600X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7600X performs better 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 2600. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2600 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 7600X 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 5 7600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 2600. The Ryzen 5 7600X also has significantly more 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 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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