AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Price

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$ 224.25

$ 96.83 significantly less expensive

$ 321.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6413 points

10175 points

58% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8715 points

0.03% slightly better gaming score

8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5671 points

10760 points

89% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5491 points

11072 points

101% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5675 points

11130 points

96% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

367.23 points

136% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly 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

4.8 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

1024 KiB

166% significantly more L1 cache

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

64 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

83rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 July

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 9 5900XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900XT 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.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 5600X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900XT CPU because of its 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 9 5900XT has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X. The Ryzen 9 5900XT also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.