AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 195.99
$ 17.00 slightly less expensive
$ 212.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4528 points
7399 points
63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5692 points
8984 points
57% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4151 points
6877 points
65% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4054 points
6735 points
66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4254 points
6914 points
62% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

131.79 points
207.23 points
57% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5551 points
9632 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1070 points
2079 points
94% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5573 points
9706 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points
2147 points
95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3.40 GHz
0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
4.6 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
65 W
46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

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

386th of 1,089
170th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Ryzen 7 5700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5700X 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.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 1700X. Also, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 1700X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 5700X 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.

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