AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Compare AMD Ryzen Threadripper 12 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

$ 199.99
$ 135.32
$ 64.67 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6657 points
6% slightly better overall score
6267 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6855 points
8333 points
21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6596 points
17% slightly better multitasking score
5604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6581 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score
5431 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8387 points
48% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
5664 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

206.91 points
37% slightly higher Blender score
150.92 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6100 points
8330 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1097 points
1980 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7137 points
8600 points
20% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1179 points
2052 points
74% 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

3.5 GHz
3.50 GHz
0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.4 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

180 W
65 W
176% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1152 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
Identical
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

212th of 1,089
237th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen Threadripper
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
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 Threadripper 1920X vs Ryzen 5 5600 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X beats the Ryzen 5 5600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has significantly more cores with 12 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 Threadripper 1920X. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 5600 outputs less heat than Ryzen Threadripper 1920X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5600. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen Threadripper 1920X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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