AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7235HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD 4 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

4431 points

10% slightly better overall score

4006 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points

6204 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

3328 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

3195 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

79.73 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.20 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

45 W

111% 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

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

397th of 1,089

435th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Ryzen 5 7235HS comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7235HS is faster than the Ryzen 5 2600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7235HS has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7235HS. The Ryzen 5 2600X 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.