Intel Core i7-7700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500

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Price

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$ 102.50
$ 74.99
$ 27.51 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3304 points
5926 points
79% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5292 points
7961 points
50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2716 points
5264 points
93% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2607 points
5099 points
95% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3062 points
5451 points
78% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

74.17 points
141.88 points
91% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4377 points
7589 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1353 points
1833 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4482 points
7653 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1405 points
1872 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
6
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
Identical
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
Identical
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB
384 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

1 MiB
3 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
16 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

516th of 1,114
270th of 1,114

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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