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AMD Ryzen 5 PRO 2600: specs and benchmarks
Summary
AMD started Ryzen 5 PRO 2600 sales 6 September 2018. This is a Zen+ architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 6 cores and 12 threads, and is based on 12 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 3900 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM4 processor with a TDP of 65 Watt. It supports DDR4 Dual-channel memory.
It provides poor benchmark performance at 10.69% of a leader's which is AMD EPYC 9654.
General info
Ryzen 5 PRO 2600 processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in performance ranking | 697 | |
| Value for money | 21.89 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Series | AMD Ryzen 5 | |
| Architecture codename | Zen+ (2018−2020) | |
| Release date | 6 September 2018 (5 years old) | |
| Current price | $215 | of 15710 (Xeon Platinum 8276L) |
Value for money
Technical specs
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 6 (Hexa-Core) | |
| Threads | 12 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.4 GHz | of 4.7 (Ryzen 9 7900X) |
| Boost clock speed | 3.9 GHz | of 6 (Core i9-13900KS) |
| Bus support | 4 × 8 GT/s | |
| L1 cache | 96K (per core) | of 7475.2 (Apple M2 Pro 10-Core) |
| L2 cache | 512K (per core) | of 36864 (Apple M2 Max) |
| L3 cache | 16 MB (shared) | of 768 (EPYC 7773X) |
| Chip lithography | 12 nm | of 4 (Ryzen 9 7940H) |
| Die size | 192 mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 4,800 million | of 9900000 (Ryzen 5 7645HX) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + | |
| Unlocked multiplier | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 5 PRO 2600 compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.
| Number of CPUs in a configuration | 1 (Uniprocessor) | of 8 (Xeon Platinum 8160M) |
| Socket | AM4 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 65 Watt | of 400 (Xeon Platinum 9282) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 5 PRO 2600. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 5 PRO 2600's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 Dual-channel | of 5600 (Ryzen 9 7940H) |
| Maximum memory size | 64 GB | of 786 (Xeon E5-2670 v3) |
| Max memory channels | 2 | of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 46.933 GB/s | of 460.8 (EPYC 9654) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 5 PRO 2600.
| Integrated graphics card | - |
Peripherals
Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.
| PCIe version | 3.0 | of 5 (EPYC 9654) |
| PCI Express lanes | 20 | of 128 (EPYC 7401) |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 5 PRO 2600. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.
Benchmark coverage: 68%
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Relative perfomance
Overall Ryzen 5 PRO 2600 performance compared to nearest competitors among desktop CPUs.
Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 5 PRO 2600 is Core i9-9900T, which is slower by 1% and lower by 5 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest Intel rivals to Ryzen 5 PRO 2600:
Similar processors
Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended GPUs
People consider these graphics cards to be good for Ryzen 5 PRO 2600, according to our PC configuration statistics.
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These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 5 PRO 2600 in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 210 configurations based on Ryzen 5 PRO 2600 in our database.
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