AMD Ryzen 9 5900 vs AMD Ryzen 7 260

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8854 points
3% slightly better overall score
8515 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9545 points
10027 points
5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8646 points
7% slightly better multitasking score
8022 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8600 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score
7872 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

298.75 points
186% significantly higher Blender score
104.21 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
49% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz
3.80 GHz
26% 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

65 W
45 W
44% significantly lower TDP

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
8 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

118th of 1,096
128th of 1,096

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

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