AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Price

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$ 269.00

$ 190.07

$ 78.93 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points

22% slightly better overall score

8046 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points

10893 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points

38% slightly better multitasking score

7125 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points

42% slightly better heavy workload score

6898 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points

54% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

6614 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points

57% significantly higher Blender score

199.23 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

20634 points

62% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

12735 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11764 points

0.47% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

11709 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2141 points

2649 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points

12203 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points

2751 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

3.80 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.1 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

384 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

94th of 1,089

147th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Ryzen 5 7600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900X beats the Ryzen 5 7600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900X. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 9 5900X also has significantly more 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.