AMD Ryzen 5 5600G vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop 6 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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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Price

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$ 140.99

$ 1442.01 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6140 points

6502 points

5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8293 points

5% slightly better gaming score

7833 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5448 points

6045 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5276 points

5906 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

146.73 points

184.03 points

25% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7674 points

7993 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1931 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1652 points

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

3.9 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

Identical

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

16 MiB

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

243rd of 1,089

220th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 5000 G-Series Desktop

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 5600G vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600G. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 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 5600G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.