AMD Ryzen 5 8500G vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 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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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 155.73

$ 39.57 slightly less expensive

$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5521 points

8673 points

57% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8044 points

12393 points

54% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4773 points

7498 points

57% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4617 points

7245 points

56% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5215 points

7587 points

45% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

159.49 points

233.29 points

46% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9444 points

14957 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2354 points

3338 points

41% 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

3.55 GHz

3.9 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.4 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

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

16 MiB

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 1,089

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 8500G vs Ryzen 5 9600X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X is faster than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 8500G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 5 9600X also has significantly more 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 8500G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.