AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 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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$ 219.80

$ 190.07

$ 29.73 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points

8046 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points

10893 points

14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

7125 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

6898 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6614 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points

6% slightly higher Blender score

199.23 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15711 points

23% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

12735 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points

11709 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points

2649 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points

12203 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points

2751 points

25% slightly 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

3.80 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5.1 GHz

8% 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

512 KiB

33% slightly 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

32 MiB

Identical

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st 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

2020 May

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Ryzen 5 7600 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7600 is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600 that 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 5800X. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7600 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.