AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Price

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$ 177.00

$ 155.73

$ 21.27 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8583 points

55% significantly better overall score

5521 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11637 points

44% significantly better gaming score

8044 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7604 points

59% significantly better multitasking score

4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7365 points

59% significantly better heavy workload score

4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6996 points

34% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

5215 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.44 points

30% slightly higher Blender score

159.49 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12876 points

36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

9444 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2889 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2354 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.70 GHz

32% slightly higher clock speed

3.55 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

Identical

6 MiB

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

121st of 1,089

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 7600X vs Ryzen 5 8500G specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7600X beats the Ryzen 5 8500G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8500G in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 7600X also has significantly more 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 7600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.