AMD Ryzen 5 5600 vs AMD Ryzen 7 8745HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD 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

6265 points
6581 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8351 points
70% significantly better gaming score
4887 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5596 points
7174 points
28% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5423 points
7309 points
34% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

150.92 points
247.63 points
64% significantly higher Blender 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

3.50 GHz
3.80 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
8 MiB
166% 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

252nd of 1,125
227th of 1,125

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 5600 vs Ryzen 7 8745HS specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8745HS beats the Ryzen 5 5600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 8745HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8745HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 8745HS 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 7 8745HS.

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.

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