AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 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
$ 567.81 significantly less expensive
$ 667.80

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4361 points
16302 points
273% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5968 points
14590 points
144% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3844 points
16961 points
341% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3721 points
17329 points
365% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3464 points
17230 points
397% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.27 points
643.21 points
505% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4891 points
22134 points
352% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1163 points
3395 points
191% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
32
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
4.3 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.9 GHz
5.7 GHz
46% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
161% significantly lower TDP
170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
1280 KiB
122% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
16 MiB
433% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
128 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

404th of 1,089
14th 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
2025 March

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 9 9950X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 2600. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a significantly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2600 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2600. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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