AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 5000 Series 8 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

4640 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points

6078 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points

4227 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points

4149 points

8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points

119.67 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5171 points

6258 points

21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1217 points

1694 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points

6151 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points

1677 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

89% significantly higher clock speed

1.90 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.25 GHz

4.4 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

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

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

397th of 1,089

376th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen PRO 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2021 March

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 7 PRO 5850U comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 2600X 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 2600X. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.