AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT

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

$ 170.99
$ 59.01 significantly less expensive
$ 230.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5776 points
7216 points
24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6952 points
8527 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5375 points
6778 points
26% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5256 points
6644 points
26% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4802 points
6357 points
32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.45 points
185.87 points
24% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6148 points
8580 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1232 points
1738 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6111 points
8527 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1254 points
1771 points
41% slightly 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

3.7 GHz
3.9 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.35 GHz
4.7 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
Identical
105 W

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

271st of 1,089
176th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April
2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 2700X vs Ryzen 7 3800XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 2700X beats the Ryzen 7 3800XT in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800XT 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. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 2700X. Also, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 7 3800XT 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 2700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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