AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7640HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

6413 points

1% slightly better overall score

6306 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8715 points

2% slightly better gaming score

8479 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5671 points

0.93% slightly better multitasking score

5619 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5491 points

0.68% slightly better heavy workload score

5454 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

163.82 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11838 points

13029 points

10% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

9274 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

2302 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

4.30 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

54 W

20% slightly 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

6 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

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

235th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2023 April

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 7640HS specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600X performs better than the Ryzen 5 7640HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7640HS in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X. Also, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7640HS outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7640HS has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 7640HS.

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.