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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AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

Price

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$ 140.99

$ 83.26 significantly less expensive

$ 224.25

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

6412 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

8715 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

5670 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

5489 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points

5675 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

155.16 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10551 points

11838 points

12% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points

8541 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points

2046 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

8665 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

2110 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

Identical

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

243rd of 1,089

226th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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.