AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 8840HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 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

6410 points

10% slightly better overall score

5821 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8714 points

20% slightly better gaming score

7228 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5668 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

5452 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5487 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

5384 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

166.92 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

9022 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2060 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

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.1 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

28 W

132% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

266th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5 (FP7r2)

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 8840HS benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 5600X is faster than the Ryzen 7 8840HS. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 8840HS in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 8840HS has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X that 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 8840HS. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8840HS has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 8840HS.

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.