AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs AMD Ryzen Z1

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen Z1 6 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
4% slightly better overall score
5874 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points
0.34% slightly better gaming score
8265 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points
5% slightly better multitasking score
5178 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
5019 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points
9% slightly higher Blender score
133.44 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points
8200 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points
2231 points
15% 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
21% slightly higher clock speed
3.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
4.9 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
28 W
132% significantly lower TDP

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
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089
261st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop
Ryzen Z1

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 5 5600G vs Ryzen Z1 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600G beats the Ryzen Z1 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen Z1 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number 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 Z1. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen Z1 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600G. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.

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