AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700

Price

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$ 230.00

$ 157.50

$ 72.50 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7216 points

7663 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8527 points

9257 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points

7115 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6644 points

6951 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6357 points

6611 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.87 points

187.49 points

0.87% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8527 points

8779 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1771 points

1998 points

12% slightly 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

5% slightly higher clock speed

3.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% 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

176th of 1,089

160th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Ryzen 7 5700 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700 is faster than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800XT in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700. Also, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 3800XT thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 3800XT also has significantly more 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 3800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.