AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs AMD Ryzen 7 7840HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points
8878 points
44% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
10890 points
31% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
8202 points
50% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
8008 points
51% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points
7356 points
33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
244.42 points
66% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10551 points
17214 points
63% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
11003 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
2353 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.1 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
54 W
20% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
8 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
116th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Ryzen 7 7840HS specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7840HS is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600G in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 7840HS. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 7840HS outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600G thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7840HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600G. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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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