AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs AMD A8-9600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD A8-9600

Price

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$ 140.99

$ 13.10

$ 127.89 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

327% significantly better overall score

1435 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

207% significantly better gaming score

2697 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

400% significantly better multitasking score

1088 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

405% significantly better heavy workload score

1044 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

649% significantly higher Blender score

19.59 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points

457% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

1359 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points

231% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

569 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

412% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

1498 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

611 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

29% slightly higher turbo speed

3.4 GHz

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

49% significantly more L2 cache

2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089

828th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600G vs A8-9600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600G is faster than the A8-9600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-9600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the A8-9600 has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-9600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-9600. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600G 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 5600G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A8-9600

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