AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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

8673 points

107% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points

12393 points

119% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points

7498 points

101% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points

7245 points

100% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points

233.29 points

132% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points

14957 points

161% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

3338 points

106% significantly 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

3.9 GHz

69% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5.4 GHz

28% 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

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

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

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

422nd of 1,089

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Ryzen 5 9600X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 9600X performs better than the Ryzen 5 5600U. 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 9600X 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 5 9600X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600U. The Ryzen 5 9600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.