AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4180 points

6410 points

53% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points

8714 points

54% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points

5668 points

52% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points

5487 points

52% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points

155.16 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9345 points

11838 points

26% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points

8541 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points

2046 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points

8665 points

51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

2110 points

30% 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

2.3 GHz

3.7 GHz

60% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.6 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

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

422nd of 1,089

226th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Ryzen 5 5600X benchmarks

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

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5600X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 5600X 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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.