AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 149.48

$ 74.77 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6447 points

0.48% slightly better overall score

6416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8765 points

1% slightly better gaming score

8665 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5700 points

0.11% slightly better multitasking score

5694 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5518 points

0.04% slightly better heavy workload score

5516 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

2% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5539 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

139.36 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7974 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2039 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

4.59 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

Identical

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

Identical

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

235th of 1,118

237th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Ryzen 5 5600GT benchmarks

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

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600X. In addition, both chips have the same 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 5 5600X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.