AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8854 points
2% slightly better overall score
8640 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9545 points
12252 points
28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8646 points
15% slightly better multitasking score
7496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8600 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score
7243 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8096 points
6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7587 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

298.75 points
28% slightly higher Blender score
233.29 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10663 points
14957 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2128 points
3338 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.9 GHz
30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.4 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
60% significantly more L1 cache
480 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
Identical
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 1,096
123rd of 1,096

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

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