AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

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 9600X

Price

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$ 177.00

$ 18.30 slightly less expensive

$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8583 points

8673 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11637 points

12393 points

6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7604 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

7498 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7365 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

7245 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6996 points

7587 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.44 points

233.29 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12876 points

14957 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2889 points

3338 points

15% 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

20% slightly higher clock speed

3.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

5.4 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

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

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2024 August

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 9600X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7600X is faster than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 9600X. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache 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 7600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.