AMD Ryzen 5 3400G vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3411 points

3588 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5261 points

5548 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2847 points

2965 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2733 points

2883 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

68.88 points

137.16 points

99% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3543 points

6064 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1107 points

22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

903 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3624 points

5310 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1137 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1071 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

3.7 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

3.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

768 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

4 MiB

16 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

495th of 1,089

476th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop with Radeon Vega Graphics

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2017 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3400G vs Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X 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 PRO 1700X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3400G. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3400G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3400G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X. Also, the Ryzen 5 3400G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3400G CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 PRO 1700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3400G. The Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X 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.