Intel Core i5-2300 vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare Intel Core 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 35.00
$ 177.99 significantly less expensive
$ 212.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

1738 points
7399 points
325% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3210 points
8984 points
179% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1327 points
6877 points
418% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1273 points
6735 points
429% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

25.92 points
207.23 points
699% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1515 points
9632 points
535% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

516 points
2079 points
302% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

1499 points
9706 points
547% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

510 points
2147 points
320% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
8
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
3.40 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.1 GHz
4.6 GHz
48% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

769th of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2011 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR3-1066
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i5-2300 vs Ryzen 7 5700X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X beats the Core i5-2300 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-2300 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 5700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Core i5-2300 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-2300. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-2300. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Core i5-2300 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. For instance, the Core i5-2300 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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