AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945H

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 6 core CPU vs AMD 8 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

8895 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11637 points

7% slightly better gaming score

10846 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7604 points

8278 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7365 points

8127 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.44 points

224.72 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.70 GHz

17% slightly higher clock speed

4.00 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

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

115th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

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 9 8945H benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 8945H beats the Ryzen 5 7600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 8945H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8945H. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945H has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 8945H.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.