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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600. Specifications, performance, tests

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2022-04-04
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
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AMD Ryzen 5 5600
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What's the best choice AMD Ryzen 7 5700X or AMD Ryzen 5 5600? Which processor is faster?

We have prepared a comparison to help you choose the best processor. Compare their specifications and benchmarks.

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X has a base frequency of 3.4 GHz. 8 / 16 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 65 W. Released in 2022-04-04.

AMD Ryzen 5 5600 has a base frequency of 3.5 GHz. 6 / 12 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 65 W. Released in 2022-04-04.

Differences

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
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  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    77 left arrow place
  • More number of cores

    2 more cores

    8 left arrow 6
  • Higher turbo clock speed

    Around 5% higher specified turbo frequency

    4.6 GHz left arrow 4.4 GHz

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 7 5700X CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    83 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    87 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    61 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    82 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    20 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
    96 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    108 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    120 place
  • Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
    75 place
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 5 5600
Report a bug
  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    115 left arrow place
  • Higher clock speed

    Around 3% better clock speed

    3.5 GHz left arrow 3.4 GHz

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    91 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    132 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    70 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    123 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    135 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    197 place
  • Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
    123 place

Specifications

Technical data
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 AMD Ryzen 5 5600
CPU family and group

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

  • CPU group
    AMD Ryzen 5000 left arrow AMD Ryzen 5000
  • Family
    Ryzen left arrow Ryzen
  • Form Factor
    Desktops / Boxed Processor left arrow Desktops / Boxed Processor
  • Generation
    4 left arrow 4
  • Predecessor
    AMD Ryzen 7 3700X left arrow AMD Ryzen 5 4600H
  • Segment
    Desktop / Server left arrow Desktop / Server
  • Series
    Ryzen 5000 Series left arrow Ryzen 5000 Series
CPU Technical specs

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

  • Base Frequency
    3.4 GHz left arrow 3.5 GHz
  • Core architecture
    normal left arrow normal
  • Core Configuration
    8x left arrow 6x
  • CPU Cores
    8 left arrow 6
  • CPU Threads
    16 left arrow 12
  • Hyperthreading / SMT
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Max. Boost Clock
    4.6 GHz left arrow 4.4 GHz
  • Overclocking
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
    4.6 GHz left arrow 4.4 GHz
  • Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
    4.2 GHz left arrow -
  • Turbo Frequency (6 Cores)
    - left arrow 4.2 GHz
IGPU

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

  • GPU name
    None left arrow None
Hardware codec support

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

  • AV1
    No left arrow No
  • H.264 / AVC
    No left arrow No
  • h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
    No left arrow No
  • h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
    No left arrow No
  • JPEG
    No left arrow No
  • VC-1
    No left arrow No
  • VP8
    No left arrow No
  • VP9
    No left arrow No
Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5600 and AMD Ryzen 7 5700X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

  • ECC
    Yes left arrow No
  • Max. Memory
    128 GB left arrow 64 GB
  • Memory Bandwidth
    51.2 GB/s left arrow 51.2 GB/s
  • Memory channels
    2 left arrow 2
  • Memory type
    DDR4 left arrow DDR4
  • PCIe
    PCIe 4.0 left arrow PCIe 4.0
  • System Memory Specification
    3200 left arrow 3200
Encryption
  • AES-NI
    Yes left arrow Yes
Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 5700X and AMD Ryzen 5 5600 Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

  • Default TDP
    65 W left arrow 65 W
  • Maximum Operating Temperature
    90 °C left arrow 90 °C
  • TDP (PL1, legacy label)
    65 W left arrow 65 W
  • TDP down
    - left arrow 45 W
Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 5700X and AMD Ryzen 5 5600, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

  • Architecture
    Vermeer (Zen 3) left arrow Vermeer (Zen 3)
  • Codename
    Vermeer left arrow Vermeer
  • Documents
    Technical data sheet left arrow Technical data sheet
  • Instruction set (ISA)
    x86-64 (64 bit) left arrow x86-64 (64 bit)
  • ISA extensions
    SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 left arrow SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
  • L1-Cache
    0.5 MB left arrow 0.375 MB
  • L2-Cache
    4 MB left arrow 3 MB
  • L3-Cache
    32 MB left arrow 32 MB
  • Manufacturer product ID (tray)
    100-000000926 left arrow 100-000000927
  • Operating systems
    Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit left arrow Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
  • Release date
    2022-04-04 left arrow 2022-04-04
  • Socket
    AM4 left arrow AM4
  • Technology
    TSMC 7nm FinFET left arrow TSMC 7nm FinFET
  • Thermal Solution (PIB)
    Not Included left arrow AMD Wraith Stealth
  • Virtualization
    AMD-V, SVM left arrow AMD-V, SVM
  • Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
    - left arrow 100-100000927BOX

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Shared tests with results for both models: 16

Blender Cycles

Each row uses one Blender version, operating system and compute backend.

Test and settingsAMD Ryzen 7 5700X AMD Ryzen 5 5600Result difference¹
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Linux 248.648616 samples/min Submissions: 40 153.28919 samples/min Submissions: 29 -38.4 %
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Windows 202.935173 samples/min Submissions: 48 154.924798 samples/min Submissions: 22 -23.7 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Linux 236.767047 samples/min Submissions: 40 165.579721 samples/min Submissions: 7 -30.1 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Windows 211.761774 samples/min Submissions: 53 158.029692 samples/min Submissions: 24 -25.4 %
Blender 5.1.0 / CPU / Windows 205.657999 samples/min Submissions: 10 155.788815 samples/min Submissions: 15 -24.2 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Linux 246.522914 samples/min Submissions: 206 168.629021 samples/min Submissions: 21 -31.6 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Windows 190.280932 samples/min Submissions: 218 149.032866 samples/min Submissions: 110 -21.7 %
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Linux 242.186257 samples/min Submissions: 141 171.717667 samples/min Submissions: 6 -29.1 %
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Windows 193.758117 samples/min Submissions: 213 144.564638 samples/min Submissions: 65 -25.4 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Linux 220.283968 samples/min Submissions: 161 179.371336 samples/min Submissions: 11 -18.6 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Windows 181.770615 samples/min Submissions: 186 141.645759 samples/min Submissions: 72 -22.1 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Linux 223.581698 samples/min Submissions: 68 177.385993 samples/min Submissions: 15 -20.7 %
More tests: 4
Test and settingsAMD Ryzen 7 5700X AMD Ryzen 5 5600Result difference¹
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Windows 181.411354 samples/min Submissions: 159 140.994483 samples/min Submissions: 92 -22.3 %
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Windows 194.838614 samples/min Submissions: 124 143.422344 samples/min Submissions: 43 -26.4 %
Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Linux 237.248946 samples/min Submissions: 55 174.553072 samples/min Submissions: 15 -26.4 %
Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Windows 193.257281 samples/min Submissions: 205 149.964113 samples/min Submissions: 123 -22.4 %

¹ Difference of the second result relative to the first in that row. No percentage is calculated for different upscaling algorithms. This compares published results, not a universal performance index.

Individual model tests

These results have no shared test of both models with the same version and settings. They are shown separately without a percentage difference.

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

AMD Ryzen 5 5600

Individual system tests

Results were obtained on the reported systems. Test versions and settings remain separate; incomplete conditions do not support calculated model performance differences.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 12 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 5 5600 6640.855874 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 12 threads / windows
System RAM: 16 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Duration: 150.583 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / linux

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 7693.313741 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / linux
System RAM: 16 GB
OS: Linux x86_64
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. / B550M DS3H AC
Duration: 129.983 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

Based on the results of several benchmarks, you can more accurately estimate the difference in performance between AMD Ryzen 7 5700X and AMD Ryzen 5 5600.

Compare the synthetic test values and choose the best processor!

These are saved results from the earlier catalog. Measurement dates and test configurations were not recorded. Models with no comparable results are omitted.

Recent models: test results with identified primary sources — Cinebench R23 · Cinebench R20 · Cinebench R15 · Cinebench 2026 · RandomX benchmark

Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Maxon's Cinebench R23 SC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows uses one CPU core, with no hypetrading

Higher values are better in this metric.

1532.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
1504.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5600
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Maxon's Cinebench R23 MC is a cross-platform test suite for macOs and Windows using a multi-core and hyperthreading

Higher values are better in this metric.

13802.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
11077.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5600
Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R20 SC is a high load CPU test for long tasks on a desktop or notebook PC, uses one CPU core, with no hypetrading

Higher values are better in this metric.

588.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
574.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5600
Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
Cinebench R20 MC is a high load CPU test for long tasks on a desktop or notebook PC, using a multi-core and hyperthreading

Higher values are better in this metric.

5330.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
4479.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5600
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
Geekbench 5 SC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively

Higher values are better in this metric.

1634.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
1538.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5600
Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
Geekbench 5 MC is a popular cross-platform performance test for desktop or mobile processors that uses system memory intensively

Higher values are better in this metric.

10179.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
8009.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5600
Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
PassMark is a test suite that performs complex mathematical calculations to determine CPU performance on file compression, encryption and physics-related tasks

Higher values are better in this metric.

27411.000000
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
21732.000000
AMD Ryzen 5 5600

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