AMD Ryzen 5 5500U vs AMD Ryzen 7 3700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 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 3700X

Price

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$ 844.78

$ 198.00

$ 646.78 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4357 points

6345 points

45% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6337 points

7643 points

20% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3730 points

5911 points

58% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3577 points

5785 points

61% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3688 points

6052 points

64% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

90.31 points

180.28 points

99% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4587 points

8116 points

76% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1288 points

1623 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

4533 points

8090 points

78% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1297 points

1674 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.1 GHz

3.6 GHz

71% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz

4.4 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

15 W

333% significantly lower TDP

65 W

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

3 MiB

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB

32 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

405th of 1,089

233rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

2019 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5500U vs Ryzen 7 3700X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700X beats the Ryzen 5 5500U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500U. A Ryzen 5 5500U CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 3700X 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 3700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500U. The Ryzen 7 3700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5500U has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.