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Benchmarks for the AMD Ryzen 5 2600X can be found below. Release dates, price and performance comparisons are also listed when available. This is made using thousands of PerformanceTest benchmark results and is updated daily.
Is the AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: AM4
Clockspeed: 3.6 GHz
Turbo Speed: 4.2 GHz
Cores: 6 Threads: 12
Typical TDP: 95 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 6 x 64 KB
L1 Data Cache: 6 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 6 x 512 KB
L3 Cache: 16 MB
Other names: AMD Ryzen 5 2600X Six-Core Processor
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q2 2018
CPUmark/$Price: 111.15
Overall Rank:
1116th fastest in multithreading out of 5157 CPUs
1131st fastest in single threading out of 5157 CPUs
360th fastest in out of 1449 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $125.00 USD (2025-06-17)
Integer Math | 47,383 MOps/Sec |
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Floating Point Math | 24,271 MOps/Sec |
Find Prime Numbers | 38 Million Primes/Sec |
Random String Sorting | 22,917 Thousand Strings/Sec |
Data Encryption | 13,137 MBytes/Sec |
Data Compression | 198,803 KBytes/Sec |
Physics | 695 Frames/Sec |
Extended Instructions | 7,581 Million Matrices/Sec |
Single Thread | 2,381 MOps/Sec |
Merchant | Price | Purchase |
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Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
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Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,652 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,295 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,015 | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,143 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,861 | |
Intel Core i5-12400F | 19,487 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,164 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,704 | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,652 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,146 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 13,893 |
Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
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AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 236.08 | |
Intel Core i5-12400F | 196.84 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 162.57 | |
Intel Core i9-13900K | 152.34 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 136.17 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 131.36 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 111.15 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 49.23 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
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Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,610 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,138 | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,900 | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,836 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,680 | |
Intel Core i5-12400F | 3,477 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,469 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,364 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,921 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,563 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 2,381 |
Baseline | CPU Mark | |
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BL2710437 - Jun 20 2025 | 13122 | |
BL2710418 - Jun 20 2025 | 13122 | |
BL2710056 - Jun 20 2025 | 14536 | |
BL2709891 - Jun 20 2025 | 13516 | |
BL2707657 - Jun 19 2025 | 14514 |
Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
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AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 13,893 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 2600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 13,165 (-5.2%) | |
AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 13,032 (-6.2%) | |
Intel Core i7-8700 @ 3.20GHz vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 12,763 (-8.1%) | |
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 12,271 (-11.7%) | |
Intel Core i7-6850K @ 3.60GHz vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 11,433 (-17.7%) | |
Intel Core i5-11400F @ 2.60GHz vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16,912 (+21.7%) | |
AMD Ryzen 5 4600G vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 15,998 (+15.2%) | |
Intel Core i5-10400F @ 2.90GHz vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 12,125 (-12.7%) | |
Intel Core i5-10400 @ 2.90GHz vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 12,029 (-13.4%) | |
Intel Core i5-9600KF @ 3.70GHz vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 10,665 (-23.2%) | |
Intel Core i5-9600K @ 3.70GHz vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 10,639 (-23.4%) | |
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 16,326 (+17.5%) |
Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | 12,452 | |
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,150 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 11,297 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,843 | |
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,586 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,483 | |
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,276 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D | 9,809 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,803 | |
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K | 9,639 | |
Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,526 | |
Intel Core Ultra 9 285 | 9,517 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 1,841 |