AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Ryzen 5 5600GT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5600GT beats the Ryzen 9 5900HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900HX has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600GT has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900HX CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 5600GT CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900HX has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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.