AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 99.99

$ 95.31 significantly less expensive

$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points

8673 points

98% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points

12393 points

107% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points

7498 points

95% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points

7245 points

94% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points

7587 points

119% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points

233.29 points

119% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points

14957 points

205% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points

3338 points

187% 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

3.9 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz

5.4 GHz

38% 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

20% slightly more L1 cache

480 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

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 2600 vs Ryzen 5 9600X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 9600X beats the Ryzen 5 2600 in overall performance. 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 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2600. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 2600. The Ryzen 5 9600X also has significantly more 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.