AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs AMD Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

6345 points
27% slightly better overall score
4985 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points
17% slightly better gaming score
6530 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points
31% slightly better multitasking score
4496 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points
32% slightly better heavy workload score
4354 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points
106% significantly higher Blender score
87.35 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
63% significantly higher clock speed
2.20 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

233rd of 1,089
350th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 7 3700X vs Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3700X beats the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 3700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700X has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 Microsoft Surface Edition. The Ryzen 7 3700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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