AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Price

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$ 170.99

$ 28.21 slightly less expensive

$ 199.20

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5776 points

8204 points

42% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6952 points

9603 points

38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5375 points

7740 points

44% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5256 points

7593 points

44% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4802 points

7628 points

58% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.45 points

214.43 points

43% significantly higher Blender 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

3.80 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.35 GHz

4.8 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

Identical

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

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

276th of 1,099

147th of 1,099

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2024 July

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 5800XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800XT beats the Ryzen 7 2700X in overall performance. 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 5800XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 2700X. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800XT 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 5800XT 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.