AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

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

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Price

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$ 199.99

$ 190.07

$ 9.92 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5158 points

8046 points

55% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6248 points

10893 points

74% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4785 points

7125 points

48% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4674 points

6898 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4136 points

6614 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

129.70 points

199.23 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5343 points

11709 points

119% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1083 points

2649 points

144% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5518 points

12203 points

121% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1116 points

2751 points

146% 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

3.2 GHz

3.80 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

5.1 GHz

24% slightly higher turbo speed

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

768 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

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

332nd of 1,089

147th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Ryzen 5 7600 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7600 is faster than the Ryzen 7 2700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 2700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600 that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 2700. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 5 7600 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 2700. The Ryzen 5 7600 also has significantly more 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 7 2700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.