AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs AMD Ryzen 5 7520U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 4 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
32% slightly better overall score
3147 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points
13% slightly better gaming score
4989 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points
43% significantly better multitasking score
2595 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points
44% significantly better heavy workload score
2494 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points
55% significantly higher Blender score
64.47 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9345 points
81% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
5149 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3685 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1171 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
49% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
49% significantly more threads
8

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz
2.80 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.3 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W
Identical
15 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

422nd of 1,089
518th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
LPDDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Ryzen 5 7520U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600U is faster than the Ryzen 5 7520U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7520U in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 5 5600U has significantly more cores with 6 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7520U that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7520U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Ryzen 5 7520U has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 5 5600U has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7520U. The Ryzen 5 5600U also has significantly more 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 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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