AMD Ryzen 7 2700X vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

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

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

Price

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$ 170.99

$ 75.85 significantly less expensive

$ 246.84

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5776 points

10008 points

73% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6952 points

12170 points

75% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5375 points

9291 points

72% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5256 points

9088 points

72% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4802 points

9007 points

87% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

149.45 points

281.95 points

88% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6148 points

15168 points

146% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1232 points

2857 points

131% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6111 points

15466 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1254 points

2977 points

137% 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

4.50 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.35 GHz

5.4 GHz

24% 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

8 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

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

89th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 April

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 2700X vs Ryzen 7 7700X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7700X performs better 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 7700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 2700X. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 2700X. The Ryzen 7 7700X 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.