AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition 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.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 1700X has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1700X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 1700X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 1700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Ryzen 7 1700X 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 7 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.