AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

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 7700

Price

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$ 339.99

$ 276.36

$ 63.63 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6549 points

10739 points

63% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points

12739 points

61% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6111 points

10048 points

64% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5988 points

9834 points

64% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6209 points

8548 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.59 points

266.15 points

43% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9081 points

14475 points

59% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1720 points

2771 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8236 points

14835 points

80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points

2879 points

69% 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

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

5.3 GHz

17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

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

32 MiB

Identical

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

218th of 1,089

74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 3800X vs Ryzen 7 7700 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7700 performs better than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800X 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 slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 7700. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 7700 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3800X. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.