AMD Ryzen 5 7500F vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

$ 188.99
$ 6.31 slightly less expensive
$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7857 points
8673 points
10% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10525 points
12393 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6994 points
7498 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6774 points
7245 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6449 points
7587 points
17% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

197.05 points
233.29 points
18% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12599 points
14957 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2751 points
3338 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
Identical
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
Identical
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.70 GHz
3.9 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
5.4 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

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
480 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
Identical
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
Identical
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

152nd of 1,089
118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 July
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 7500F vs Ryzen 5 9600X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X is faster than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7500F in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7500F. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache and 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 7500F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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