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. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. 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.
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