AMD Ryzen 5 9600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 260

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8589 points
2% slightly better overall score
8361 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12212 points
24% slightly better gaming score
9794 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7444 points
7894 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7194 points
7749 points
7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.29 points
123% significantly higher Blender score
104.21 points

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

3.9 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
5.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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 1,092
133rd of 1,092

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series
Ryzen 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

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