AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Price

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$ 140.99

$ 173.50 significantly less expensive

$ 314.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

13554 points

120% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

13457 points

62% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

13583 points

149% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

13587 points

157% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5522 points

12798 points

131% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

412.82 points

181% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

10551 points

29628 points

180% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7577 points

17426 points

129% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1885 points

2844 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

17750 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

2946 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz

4.7 GHz

20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5.6 GHz

27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

161% significantly lower TDP

170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

768 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

12 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

64 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089

36th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

Ryzen 9 Desktop

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

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Ryzen 9 7900X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600G CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 7900X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600G. The Ryzen 9 7900X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.