Ryzen 7 3700X vs Ryzen 5 5500 comparison
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700X beats the Ryzen 5 5500 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500. According to our data, the Ryzen 7 3700X and Ryzen 5 5500 have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 3700X 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, the Ryzen 7 3700X has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5500. The Ryzen 7 3700X 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 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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