AMD Ryzen 5 9600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 195.30
$ 3.90 slightly less expensive
$ 199.20

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8673 points
5% slightly better overall score
8204 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12393 points
29% slightly better gaming score
9603 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7498 points
7740 points
3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7245 points
7593 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7587 points
7628 points
0.54% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

233.29 points
8% slightly higher Blender score
214.43 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
12% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

480 KiB
512 KiB
6% slightly more L1 cache

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

32 MiB
Identical
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 1,089
140th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August
2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 9600X vs Ryzen 7 5800XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 9600X beats the Ryzen 7 5800XT in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800XT in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800XT has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800XT has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 9600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800XT. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 9600X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800XT CPU because of its 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 5 9600X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800XT. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 9600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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