AMD Ryzen 5 7600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 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

8046 points

8451 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10893 points

12073 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7125 points

7298 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6898 points

7044 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

199.23 points

221.97 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12203 points

14339 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2751 points

3205 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.1 GHz

5.2 GHz

1% 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

Identical

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

147th of 1,089

128th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

2025 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 7600 vs Ryzen 5 9600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 9600 beats the Ryzen 5 7600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 9600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600 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. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

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 7600 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.