AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 195.30

$ 28.95 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points

8673 points

35% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

12393 points

42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

7498 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

7245 points

32% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

7587 points

33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

233.29 points

50% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

14957 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

3338 points

58% significantly 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

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.4 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

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

480 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

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

Identical

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 August

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 9600X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 9600X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.