AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5560U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Mobile 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4528 points

4837 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5692 points

6909 points

21% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4151 points

4216 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4054 points

4083 points

0.72% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

131.79 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

103.14 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5573 points

6293 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points

1663 points

51% significantly 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

3.4 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

15 W

533% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

386th of 1,089

361st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 5 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February

2021 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Ryzen 5 5560U specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 5560U beats the Ryzen 7 1700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5560U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5560U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 5560U. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 1700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5560U. The Ryzen 7 1700X 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 7 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.