AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs AMD Ryzen 7 1800X

Compare AMD 6 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 1800X

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 105.99 significantly less expensive

$ 235.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

5542 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

6612 points

0.23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

5172 points

52% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

5056 points

55% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

4496 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

141.60 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

5675 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1118 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

5693 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1144 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% 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

4.1 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

95 W

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

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

289th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Ryzen 7 1800X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 1800X beats the Ryzen 5 3500X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 1800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. According to our data, the Ryzen 5 3500X and Ryzen 7 1800X have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 1800X 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 1800X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 1800X.

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. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.