AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs AMD Ryzen 5 6600H

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5776 points

9% slightly better overall score

5291 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6952 points

7096 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5375 points

13% slightly better multitasking score

4729 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5256 points

14% slightly better heavy workload score

4589 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.45 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

129.09 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6111 points

7501 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1254 points

1825 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

12% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.35 GHz

4.5 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

45 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

271st of 1,089

311th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 2700X vs Ryzen 5 6600H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 6600H is faster than the Ryzen 7 2700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 2700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 6600H that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 6600H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 6600H. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 2700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 6600H. 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 7 2700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.