AMD Ryzen 5 2400G vs AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 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

$ 109.99
$ 88.01 significantly less expensive
$ 198.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3182 points
6364 points
100% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4837 points
7660 points
58% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2674 points
5930 points
121% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2567 points
5804 points
126% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3483 points
6052 points
73% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

67.91 points
180.28 points
165% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3218 points
8116 points
152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1031 points
1623 points
57% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3230 points
8090 points
150% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1037 points
1674 points
61% 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

8
16
100% 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

3.9 GHz
4.4 GHz
12% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
512 KiB
33% slightly 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

4 MiB
32 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

534th of 1,121
243rd of 1,121

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 December
2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 2400G vs Ryzen 7 3700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700X beats the Ryzen 5 2400G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 2400G in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 3700X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 2400G. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 2400G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 2400G. Both the Ryzen 5 2400G and Ryzen 7 3700X have the same clock speed. 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 2400G. The Ryzen 7 3700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 2400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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