AMD Ryzen 7 260 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 200 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD 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

7924 points

4% slightly better overall score

7598 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9428 points

10348 points

9% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7435 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

6695 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7295 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

6473 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

104.21 points

199.09 points

91% significantly higher Blender 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

3.80 GHz

4.00 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

96 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

150th of 1,089

161st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 200 Series

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 7 260 vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 260 performs better than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 260 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 260 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 260. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 260 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 260.

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 7 260 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.