AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs AMD A6-5200

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs AMD A6-Series APU for Desktops 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6264 points
783% significantly better overall score
709 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7696 points
486% significantly better gaming score
1313 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5820 points
977% significantly better multitasking score
540 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5710 points
1002% significantly better heavy workload score
518 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points
2261% significantly higher Blender score
7.43 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14363 points
1603% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
843 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7263 points
1199% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
559 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1794 points
788% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
202 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7587 points
1192% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
587 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1845 points
800% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
205 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
300% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz
64% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W
25 W
79% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 1,089
1,027th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile
A6-Series APU for Desktops

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January
2013 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200
DDR3

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
No

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs A6-5200 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900HX beats the A6-5200 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the A6-5200 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the A6-5200 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the A6-5200. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has a significantly higher clock speed than the A6-5200. The A6-5200 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900HX thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 9 5900HX has more L2 cache than the A6-5200

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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