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. 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.

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 9 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.