AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 1700

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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
$ 149.99
$ 74.26 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points
35% slightly better overall score
4724 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points
55% significantly better gaming score
5587 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points
27% slightly better multitasking score
4432 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points
26% slightly better heavy workload score
4341 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points
45% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
3899 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points
21% slightly higher Blender score
128.00 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points
69% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
5049 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
987 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points
67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5186 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1027 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
24% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 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
768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
4 MiB
33% slightly 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
372nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

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 Ryzen 7 1700 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 5600X performs better than the Ryzen 7 1700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 1700 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 1700. 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 1700 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 1700.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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