AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 6800U

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD 8 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

4% slightly better overall score

6163 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8715 points

10% slightly better gaming score

7894 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5671 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

5606 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5491 points

0.31% slightly better heavy workload score

5474 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5170 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

148.55 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

11838 points

0.83% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

11741 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8541 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

7536 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2046 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1792 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7407 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1713 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

36% slightly higher clock speed

2.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

512 KiB

33% slightly 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

242nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

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 7 6800U specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 6800U is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 6800U has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores. 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 6800U. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 6800U has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 6800U outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 5600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 6800U has slightly 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 7 6800U.

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.