AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 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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$ 314.49

$ 190.07

$ 124.42 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13554 points

68% significantly better overall score

8046 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13457 points

23% slightly better gaming score

10893 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13583 points

90% significantly better multitasking score

7125 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13587 points

96% significantly better heavy workload score

6898 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12798 points

93% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

6614 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

412.82 points

107% significantly higher Blender score

199.23 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

29628 points

132% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

12735 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17426 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

11709 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2844 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

2649 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17750 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

12203 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2946 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2751 points

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

4.7 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

3.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz

9% slightly higher turbo speed

5.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

170 W

65 W

161% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

12 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

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

36th 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

2022 September

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 7900X vs Ryzen 5 7600 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X is faster than the Ryzen 5 7600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7600. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7600. The Ryzen 9 7900X 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 7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.