AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

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

$ 87.91
$ 125.08 significantly less expensive
$ 212.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points
7399 points
116% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points
8984 points
70% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points
6877 points
141% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points
6735 points
146% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3972 points
6914 points
74% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points
207.23 points
200% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3543 points
9632 points
171% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points
2079 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3624 points
9706 points
167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1137 points
2147 points
88% 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

3.7 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz
4.6 GHz
9% 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

495th of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Ryzen 7 5700X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X beats the Ryzen 5 3400G in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3400G in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3400G. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3400G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3400G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X 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 5700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3400G. The Ryzen 7 5700X 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 3400G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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