Intel Core i7-7700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare Intel 7th Generation Core i7 4 core CPU vs AMD 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Price

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$ 102.50

$ 42.50 significantly less expensive

$ 145.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3300 points

5020 points

52% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5283 points

6843 points

29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2715 points

4448 points

63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2606 points

4307 points

65% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3062 points

5545 points

81% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

74.17 points

141.41 points

90% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly 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

4.4 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

500th of 1,089

345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

7th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2133

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i7-7700 vs Ryzen 5 5500GT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5500GT beats the Core i7-7700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-7700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i7-7700 has slightly more cores with 4 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5500GT that has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. In terms of clock speed, the Core i7-7700 and Ryzen 5 5500GT are identical in this regard. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-7700. The Ryzen 5 5500GT also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.