AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 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

$ 287.24
$ 135.32
$ 151.92 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
78% significantly better overall score
6267 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
19% slightly better gaming score
8333 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
107% significantly better multitasking score
5604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
117% significantly better heavy workload score
5431 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points
108% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
5664 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
169% significantly higher Blender score
150.92 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points
47% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
8330 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1980 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8600 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2052 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
166% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
166% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3.50 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

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

1024 KiB
166% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache
3 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

66th of 1,089
237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 5 5600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Ryzen 5 5600 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5950X 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, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600. The Ryzen 9 5950X 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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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