AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 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

8583 points

1% slightly better overall score

8451 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11637 points

12073 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7604 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

7298 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7365 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

7044 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.44 points

221.97 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12876 points

14339 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2889 points

3205 points

10% 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

4.70 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

5.2 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

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

121st 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

2022 September

2025 February

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 9600 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7600X performs better than the Ryzen 5 9600. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 9600. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 9600 outputs less heat than Ryzen 5 7600X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. 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 7600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.