AMD Ryzen 5 8600G vs AMD Ryzen 7 170

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7444 points
7802 points
4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

10445 points
9% slightly better gaming score
9529 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6480 points
7219 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6263 points
7047 points
12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
8
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.35 GHz
35% slightly higher clock speed
3.20 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

181st of 1,127
166th of 1,127

Family

The product line

Ryzen 8000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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