AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Price

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$ 170.99

$ 19.08 slightly less expensive

$ 190.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5776 points

8046 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6952 points

10893 points

56% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5375 points

7125 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5256 points

6898 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4802 points

6614 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.45 points

199.23 points

33% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6148 points

11709 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1232 points

2649 points

115% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6111 points

12203 points

99% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1254 points

2751 points

119% 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

3.80 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.35 GHz

5.1 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% 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

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

271st of 1,089

147th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2023 January

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 7600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7600 performs better than the Ryzen 7 2700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 2700X. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7600 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 2700X. The Ryzen 5 7600 also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 2700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.