AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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

7869 points

88% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points

9478 points

67% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points

7328 points

96% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points

7169 points

98% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points

213.11 points

112% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

9345 points

15711 points

68% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5751 points

10085 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1605 points

2119 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points

10211 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

2193 points

35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.3 GHz

3.8 GHz

65% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

4.7 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

599% significantly lower TDP

105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly 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

151st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Ryzen 7 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

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600U vs Ryzen 7 5800X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5800X is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 7 5800X has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600U. The Ryzen 7 5800X 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.