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AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Ryzen 5 9600X

59 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
VS
71 out of 100
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

We compared two desktop CPUs: the 3.7 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 5900X with 12-cores against the 3.9 GHz Ryzen 5 9600X with 6-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
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Value for money (Beta)

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VS
54.4
(Average)
Value Index
120.5
(Excellent)

Key Differences

What are the key differences between 9600X and 5900X
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
  • Has 6 more physical cores
  • Has 32 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
  • Newer - released 3 years and 8 months later
  • Around 41.92 GB/s (88%) higher theoretical memory bandwidth
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 7 nanometers
  • Supports up to 192 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • 47% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 3334 vs 2263 points
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • Includes an integrated GPU Radeon 610M
  • 13% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.4 GHz vs 4.8 GHz)

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Ryzen 9 5900X
vs
Ryzen 5 9600X

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Ryzen 9 5900X +16%
1193
Ryzen 5 9600X
1031
Cinebench 2026 (Single) - 720
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) - 3701
Cinebench Scores (112th and 147th place)
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Ryzen 9 5900X
2263
Ryzen 5 9600X +47%
3334
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Ryzen 9 5900X
12701
Ryzen 5 9600X +18%
15031
File compression 1170 MB/sec 1550 MB/sec
Clang compilation 126 Klines/sec 102.2 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 217.8 pages/sec 299.1 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 362 Mpixels/sec 375.3 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 232 pages/sec 353.7 pages/sec
Background blur 38.7 images/sec 77.1 images/sec
Photo processing 85.1 images/sec 123.4 images/sec
Ray tracing 31.5 Mpixels/sec 21.6 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 441 & 2 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Ryzen 9 5900X
3465
Ryzen 5 9600X +32%
4571
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Ryzen 9 5900X +29%
38888
Ryzen 5 9600X
30080
Integer math 139.7 GOps/sec 89.9 GOps/sec
Floating point math 77.6 GOps/sec 60.2 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 257M Primes/sec 233M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 51.5M Strings/sec 36.1M Strings/sec
Data encryption 31 GBytes/sec 16.7 GBytes/sec
Data compression 498.8 MBytes/sec 343.1 MBytes/sec
Physics 1984 Frames/sec 1978 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 33.1B Matrices/sec 28.2B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 27058 & 8962 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
Ryzen 9 5900X +45%
316.84
Ryzen 5 9600X
218.13

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 11.4 PPW 15.9 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 121 PPW 231.2 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 370.4 PPW 462.8 PPW
Blender / Watt 3.02 PPW 3.36 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-03-19 (D)Cinebench 202467 / 893
πŸ“˜ 2025-11-02 (Zoli)Cinebench 202493 / 1254
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-12 (Otamatone)Cinebench 202492 / 981
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-08 (aref)Cinebench 202494 / 1015
πŸ“˜ 2025-08-15 (SnakeyB)Cinebench 2024120 / 380
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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-06 (Byrno5263)Cinebench 2026720 / 3701
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-08 (JUANCHO)Cinebench 2026524 / 3801
πŸ“˜ 2026-04-16 (StarSophia)Cinebench 2024131 / 909
πŸ“˜ 2026-02-03 (awolution)Cinebench 2024137 / 1000
πŸ“˜ 2026-02-01 (GandΕΎi)Cinebench 2024134 / 954
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Specifications

Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 5 9600X

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Released October 8, 2020 June 3, 2024
Type Desktop Desktop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Zen 3 (Vermeer) Zen 5 (Granite Ridge)
Integrated GPU No Radeon 610M
Rival Equivalent - Intel Core i9 11900K - Intel Core i5 14600K
Successor - AMD Ryzen 9 9900X -
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (70th and 33rd place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 12 6
P-Threads 24 12
Base Frequency (P) 3.7 GHz 3.9 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.8 GHz 5.4 GHz
Total
Total Cores 12 6
Total Threads 24 12
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 37x 39x
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 80K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 64MB (shared) 32MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier Yes Yes

Package

Transistors 4.15 billions 8.3 billions
Fabrication Process 7 nm 4 nm
TDP (PL1) 105 W 65 W
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) 142 W 142 W
Socket AM4 AM5
Peak Temperature 90Β°C 95Β°C
Desktop CPU ranking (83rd and 49th place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics - Radeon 610M
GPU Base Clock - 400 MHz
GPU Boost Clock - 2200 MHz
Shading Units - 128
TMUs - 8
ROPs - 4
Execution Units - 2
TGP - 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Ryzen 9 5900X
n/a
Ryzen 5 9600X
0.6 TFLOPS
See: Radeon 610M benchmarks

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR4-3200 - DDR5-5600
Max. Memory Size 128 GB 192 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 47.68 GB/s 89.6 GB/s
ECC Support Yes Yes

Misc

Official Site AMD Ryzen 9 5900X official page AMD Ryzen 5 9600X official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 5.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 28

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Comments

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