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Ryzen 5 5600X vs Ryzen 7 5800X — Specs & Performance Compared

Side-by-side comparison of 2 CPU parts: Ryzen 5 5600X vs Ryzen 7 5800X. All released in 2020. MSRP range: $299 · $449. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability — click into any column header for the per-SKU benchmark page.

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*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Last updated 2026-06-07. Price and availability subject to change.

Specs side-by-side

SpecRyzen 5 5600XRyzen 7 5800X
cores 68
threads 1216
boost clock ghz 4.64.7
tdp w 65105
l3 cache mb 3232
socket AM4AM4

Synthetic benchmarks

Higher is better. Per-row scores come from public benchmark databases (PassMark, TechPowerUp, Geekbench, Cinebench). Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

BenchmarkRyzen 5 5600XRyzen 7 5800X
Cinebench R23 multi 20,500 pts42,500 pts
Cinebench R23 single 1,680 pts1,800 pts
Geekbench 6 multi 11,200 pts18,000 pts
Geekbench 6 single 2,250 pts2,200 pts
PassMark CPU Mark 18,900 pts32,000 pts

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization, prompt length, and source citations.

Ryzen 5 5600X

No AI benchmarks on file. See the Ryzen 5 5600X benchmark page →

Ryzen 7 5800X

  • llama3.1:70b: 18.5 tok/s

All Ryzen 7 5800X AI benchmarks →

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