AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 109.25
$ 220.74 significantly less expensive
$ 329.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4431 points
6994 points
57% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points
8202 points
36% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points
6575 points
67% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points
6440 points
69% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3662 points
6750 points
84% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points
187.18 points
64% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points
10106 points
92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points
1922 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
0.67% slightly higher clock speed
3.58 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.25 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed
4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
10% slightly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
12% slightly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
96 MiB
499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

397th of 1,089
194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 2600X vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 2600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Also, the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 2600X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5700X3D CPU because of its slightly 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 7 5700X3D has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2600X. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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