AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800U

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 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

6549 points
28% slightly better overall score
5087 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points
28% slightly better gaming score
6161 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6111 points
28% slightly better multitasking score
4760 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5988 points
28% slightly better heavy workload score
4676 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.59 points
32% slightly higher Blender score
139.86 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9081 points
44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
6263 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1720 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1671 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8236 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
6881 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points
1741 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
105% significantly higher clock speed
1.9 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
15 W
599% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
Identical
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

218th of 1,089
340th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 7 3800X vs Ryzen 7 5800U benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3800X beats the Ryzen 7 5800U in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800U in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3800X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800U. Also, the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800U outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 3800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. 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 3800X 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 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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