AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 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

$ 220.43
$ 39.13 slightly less expensive
$ 259.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

61 %
Identical
61 %

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

83 %
1% slightly better gaming score
82 %

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

54 %
Identical
54 %

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

53 %
1% slightly better heavy workload score
52 %

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7613
8093
6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

156.07
166.54
6% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10551
11838
12% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577
8541
12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885
2046
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7541
8574
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1880
2058
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
4.6 GHz
4% 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

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
Identical
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

87th of 622
90th of 622

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

April 2021
May 2020

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Ryzen 5 5600X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600G performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X 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, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 5600X 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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