AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs AMD Ryzen 7 2700X

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 2700X

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 40.99 significantly less expensive

$ 170.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

5776 points

38% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

6952 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

5375 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

5256 points

61% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

4802 points

24% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

149.45 points

73% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5905 points

6148 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1536 points

24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1232 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

6111 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1254 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

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

4.35 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 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

271st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2018 April

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 2700X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 2700X is faster than the Ryzen 5 3500X. 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 2700X 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Also, the Ryzen 7 2700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 2700X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 2700X has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 3500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 2700X.

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