AMD Ryzen 5 5600U vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

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

10982 points

162% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5656 points

13108 points

131% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3723 points

10252 points

175% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3608 points

10031 points

178% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

100.46 points

325.43 points

223% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5709 points

18346 points

221% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

3336 points

106% significantly 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

4.7 GHz

104% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

5.2 GHz

23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

700% significantly lower TDP

120 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

640 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

96 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

422nd of 1,089

70th 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 November

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 7 9800X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600U. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600U. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 7 9800X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600U. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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.