AMD Ryzen 5 9600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600

Ryzen 5 9600X vs Ryzen 5 9600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 9600X beats the Ryzen 5 9600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 9600 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount 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 9600. 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 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 9600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.