AMD Ryzen 5 2600X vs AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 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
7025 points
58% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6004 points
8549 points
42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3931 points
6518 points
65% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3809 points
6374 points
67% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3662 points
6835 points
86% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

114.07 points
184.59 points
61% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5171 points
9429 points
82% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1217 points
1960 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5247 points
9459 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1242 points
1979 points
59% 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
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.25 GHz
4.9 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed

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

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

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
192nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 9 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 2600X vs Ryzen 9 6900HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 6900HX 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 9 6900HX 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 6900HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 6900HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 6900HX 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 9 6900HX has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 2600X. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 2600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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