AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 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
$ 36.01 slightly less expensive
$ 177.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
8583 points
39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
11637 points
40% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
7604 points
39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
7365 points
39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points
6996 points
26% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
208.44 points
42% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10551 points
15510 points
47% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points
12562 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points
2799 points
48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
12876 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
2889 points
49% significantly 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
4.70 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.3 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 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
6 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

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
121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Ryzen 5 7600X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7600X performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600G in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 7600X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G. The Ryzen 5 7600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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