AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 74.99
$ 102.01 significantly less expensive
$ 177.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5931 points
8583 points
44% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7969 points
11637 points
46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5267 points
7604 points
44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5102 points
7365 points
44% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5451 points
6996 points
28% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.88 points
208.44 points
46% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7589 points
12562 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1833 points
2799 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7653 points
12876 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1872 points
2889 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
4.70 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
5.3 GHz
26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
Identical
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
6 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

256th of 1,089
121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 5500 vs Ryzen 5 7600X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7600X is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5500 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 7600X CPU because of its 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 5 7600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. The Ryzen 5 7600X 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 5500 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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