AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 269.00
$ 195.30
$ 73.70 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points
13% slightly better overall score
8673 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points
12393 points
24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points
31% slightly better multitasking score
7498 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points
35% slightly better heavy workload score
7245 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points
34% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7587 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points
34% slightly higher Blender score
233.29 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points
14957 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points
3338 points
51% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
3.9 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5.4 GHz
12% 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
60% significantly more L1 cache
480 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
118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Ryzen 5 9600X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X is faster than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 9600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 9600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X. Also, the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 9600X outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5900X also has significantly more 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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