It is nearly 10 per cent faster than the nearest Intel challenger in this single thread test. If you head on over to the PassMark Software CPUs benchmarks pages you might be a little surprised to find that the unreleased AMD Ryzen 5 5600X desktop processor features in its tables and charts. Navigating to the CPU benchmarks page, single thread performance category, makes the AMD Ryzen 5 5600X hard to miss, sitting very comfortably there at the top of the rankings.