AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 16 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
0.56% slightly better overall score
8535 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11637 points
43% significantly better gaming score
8107 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7604 points
8825 points
16% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7365 points
9118 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.44 points
468.88 points
124% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
16
166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
32
166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.70 GHz
87% significantly higher clock speed
2.50 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
55 W
90% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
1024 KiB
166% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
16 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
64 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

121st of 1,089
124th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2025 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 7600X vs Ryzen 9 8945HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7600X beats the Ryzen 9 8945HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 8945HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 8945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 8945HX 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 8945HX has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7600X. The Ryzen 9 8945HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.

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