AMD Ryzen 3 3300X vs AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 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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AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Price

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$ 120.00

$ 78.00 significantly less expensive

$ 198.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3954 points

6345 points

60% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6365 points

7643 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3235 points

5911 points

82% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3106 points

5785 points

86% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5061 points

6052 points

19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

87.13 points

180.28 points

106% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5688 points

8116 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1604 points

1623 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5870 points

8090 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1700 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1674 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.3 GHz

4.4 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

256 KiB

512 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

438th of 1,089

233rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 3 3300X vs Ryzen 7 3700X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 3700X is faster than the Ryzen 3 3300X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 3300X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 3300X has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 3300X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 3 3300X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700X 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 3700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 3300X. The Ryzen 7 3700X 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 Ryzen 3 3300X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.