AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500

Price

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$ 109.25

$ 74.99

$ 34.26 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points

5931 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points

7969 points

32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points

5267 points

33% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points

5102 points

33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3662 points

5451 points

48% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points

141.88 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5171 points

7589 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1217 points

1833 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points

7653 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points

1872 points

50% 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

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.25 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% 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

397th of 1,089

256th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Ryzen 5 5500 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5500 performs better than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. In terms of clock speed, the Ryzen 5 2600X and Ryzen 5 5500 are identical in this regard. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5500 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 2600X 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.