AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 184.99

$ 10.31 slightly less expensive

$ 195.30

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7430 points

8673 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points

12393 points

42% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points

7498 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points

7245 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6694 points

7587 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points

233.29 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points

14957 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points

3338 points

65% 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

3.8 GHz

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.4 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

6% slightly more L1 cache

480 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

168th of 1,089

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Ryzen 5 9600X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700G in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700G has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 9600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700G. 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5700G. The Ryzen 5 9600X 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 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.