AMD Ryzen 7 2700X 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

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$ 170.99
$ 42.00 slightly less expensive
$ 212.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5776 points
7399 points
28% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6952 points
8984 points
29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5375 points
6877 points
27% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5256 points
6735 points
28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4802 points
6914 points
43% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.45 points
207.23 points
38% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6148 points
9632 points
56% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1232 points
2079 points
68% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6111 points
9706 points
58% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1254 points
2147 points
71% 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

3.7 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.35 GHz
4.6 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% 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

271st 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

2018 April
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 2700X vs Ryzen 7 5700X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700X is faster than the Ryzen 7 2700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 2700X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 2700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 2700X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 5700X 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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