AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800

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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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5776 points

7246 points

25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6952 points

9033 points

29% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5375 points

6679 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5256 points

6542 points

24% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4802 points

7120 points

48% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.45 points

191.07 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6148 points

9217 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1232 points

2067 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6111 points

8758 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1254 points

2080 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.4 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

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

175th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 2700X vs Ryzen 7 5800 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 2700X performs better than the Ryzen 7 5800. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800 in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores 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 5800. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800 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 5800 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 2700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.