AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs AMD A9-9420

Ryzen 5 5600G vs A9-9420 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600G is faster than the A9-9420. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A9-9420 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the A9-9420 that has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A9-9420. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed than the A9-9420. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5600G has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the A9-9420

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.