Synthetic System Benchmarks
We are going to start with synthetic system application benchmarks on this page. Gaming performance will be shown later on.
PCMark 10
Standard PCMark Benchmark
In the first graph, we are looking at PCMark 10 standard benchmark test, which is an overall system test. PCMark 10 runs a gauntlet of different office, content creation, and desktop workloads. In PCMark’s system test, we find the AMD Ryzen 5 5600G starts off by proving to be around 5% faster overall compared to the Ryzen 5 3600X, so there is an advantage there. The Ryzen 5 5600X is overall the fastest CPU, but the 5600G only trails it by 7%, so it isn’t too far off. The 5600G kind of sits right in the middle.
PCMark Application Benchmark
In this graph, we are looking at PCMark 10’s Applications Benchmark. This test is very specific, it tests the performance of Microsoft Office, using Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and even Edge. We are using Microsoft Office 2021 for these tests. In MS Office performance testing the Ryzen 5 5600G is closer to Ryzen 5 3600X performance, despite the newer architecture that halving of the L3 cache hurts it in office applications. Though the new architecture is able to pull it through enough that it just edges out 3600X performance at least, it’s certainly no slouch. Compared to the 5600X it is only about 6% slower, so not that far off from 5600X performance in office apps.
3DMark
CPU Profile
We are using 3DMark Professional’s CPU Profile test. This test specifically tests CPUs and reports an overall score, it tests various thread counts. We are going to report on the “Max Threads” and “1-Thread” results only. The AMD Ryzen 5 5600G in “Max Threads testing is very strong, actually performing slightly faster than the 5600X, perhaps by maintaining a more consistently higher all-core clock speed when all cores are in use. The 5600G is actually 2% faster than the 5600X and 17% faster than the 3600x! That’s a big advantage versus the previous generation for all-core multi-threading performance.
When it comes to single-thread or 1-thread/core testing the Ryzen 5 5600X will be faster because it has a 200MHz boost clock on single-core. This puts the 5600G just 5% under the 5600X on single-core performance, which is not too bad. It’s much closer to 5600X performance than 3600X. It vastly improves upon the 3600X performance by 19%!
Geekbench 5
Next up we have the latest version of Geekbench 5. This benchmark tests overall CPU performance and can show us a result in both multi-core and single-core performance. Similar to what we saw above, the Ryzen 5 5600G is very strong in multi-core performance, coming extremely close, within 2%, of the 5600X performance. It improves upon the 3600X by 8%.
The Ryzen 5 5600X is of course faster because of the clock speed, but the Ryzen 5 5600G is just 8% under its performance. The 5600G is vastly faster than the 3600X improving performance by 15% on single-core/thread performance from it, thanks to the newer architecture.
PassMark Performance Test
In PassMark PerformanceTest the Ryzen 5 5600G is closer to 5600X performance, it’s within 6% of its performance. Compared to the 3600X it is 11% faster.