AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs Intel Core i5-9500

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i5 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

$ 140.99
$ 8.01 slightly less expensive
$ 149.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
57% significantly better overall score
3906 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
29% slightly better gaming score
6425 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
73% significantly better multitasking score
3132 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
75% significantly better heavy workload score
3003 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
53% significantly higher Blender score
95.73 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4834 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1444 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4973 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1468 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
100% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
Identical
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

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
100% significantly more L2 cache
1.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache
9 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
441st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
9th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Core i5-9500 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600G beats the Core i5-9500 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-9500 in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count but the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-9500. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. 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 Core i5-9500. The Ryzen 5 5600G also has significantly more L3 cache.

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

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