AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD A8-7600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD A8-Series APU for Desktops 2 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 224.25
$ 82.49
$ 141.76 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points
372% significantly better overall score
1357 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points
239% significantly better gaming score
2567 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points
451% significantly better multitasking score
1027 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points
456% significantly better heavy workload score
986 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points
761% significantly higher Blender score
18.02 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points
642% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1150 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points
348% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
456 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points
729% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1045 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points
391% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
429 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
200% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
200% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed
3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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
4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089
852nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
A8-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2014 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Ryzen 5 5600X vs A8-7600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600X beats the A8-7600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A8-7600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more cores with 6 cores whereas the A8-7600 has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the A8-7600. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the A8-7600. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X 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 A8-7600 has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600X

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 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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