AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

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

6412 points

21% slightly better overall score

5291 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8715 points

22% slightly better gaming score

7096 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5670 points

19% slightly better multitasking score

4729 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5489 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

4589 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

20% slightly higher Blender score

129.09 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11838 points

10% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

10717 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7501 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1825 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

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

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

226th of 1,089

311th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

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 6600H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600X beats the Ryzen 5 6600H in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 6600H in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 6600H. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. 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.