AMD Ryzen 7 2700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Ryzen 7 2700 vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700 beats the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 2700 has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 2700 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Ryzen 7 2700 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.