AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

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

7216 points
7478 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8527 points
10030 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points
1% slightly better multitasking score
6652 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6644 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
6441 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.87 points
199.09 points
7% slightly higher Blender score

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

3.9 GHz
4.00 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
96 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

183rd of 1,102
172nd of 1,102

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 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 3800XT vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D beats the Ryzen 7 3800XT in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800XT in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 7 3800XT has slightly more cores with 8 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7500X3D that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3800XT. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. The Ryzen 5 7500X3D 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 3800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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