AMD Ryzen 5 5600X vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 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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$ 224.25

$ 1358.75 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6413 points

6502 points

1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8715 points

11% slightly better gaming score

7833 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5671 points

6045 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5491 points

5906 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

155.16 points

184.03 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8665 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7993 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2110 points

27% 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

3.7 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

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

32 MiB

Identical

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

226th of 1,089

220th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 5 5600X vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 beats the Ryzen 5 5600X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5600X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. Also, the Ryzen 5 5600X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600X. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 5600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.