AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700F

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 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
$ 25.92 slightly less expensive
$ 250.17

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6410 points
9424 points
47% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points
11316 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points
8790 points
55% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points
8596 points
56% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points
7868 points
38% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points
229.92 points
48% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points
12976 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points
2647 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
4.10 GHz
10% 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
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
8 MiB
166% 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
101st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2024 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

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 8700F benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 8700F beats the Ryzen 5 5600X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 8700F has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8700F has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700F 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 7 8700F 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 7 8700F.

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.

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