AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Price

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$ 135.32

$ 20.41 slightly less expensive

$ 155.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6267 points

13% slightly better overall score

5521 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8333 points

3% slightly better gaming score

8044 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5604 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5431 points

17% slightly better heavy workload score

4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5664 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5215 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

150.92 points

159.49 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8600 points

9444 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2052 points

2354 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.50 GHz

3.55 GHz

1% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

237th of 1,089

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600 vs Ryzen 5 8500G comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 8500G beats the Ryzen 5 5600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600. Also, the Ryzen 5 8500G has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 8500G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G.

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 5600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.