AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs Intel Core i5-7600K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 7th Generation Core i5 4 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 184.99
$ 119.36 significantly less expensive
$ 304.35

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7430 points
156% significantly better overall score
2899 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points
62% significantly better gaming score
5366 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points
217% significantly better multitasking score
2207 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points
225% significantly better heavy workload score
2115 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6694 points
147% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
2709 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points
221% significantly higher Blender score
61.33 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8659 points
104% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
4236 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1491 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points
111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
4238 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1522 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
100% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
300% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
Identical
3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
9% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
40% slightly lower TDP
91 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089
553rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop
7th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2017 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Core i5-7600K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700G is faster than the Core i5-7600K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-7600K in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5700G has significantly more cores than the Core i5-7600K. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-7600K. It also has more threads than the Core i5-7600K. According to our data, the Ryzen 7 5700G and Core i5-7600K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700G CPU outputs less heat than a Core i5-7600K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 7 5700G has more L2 cache than the Core i5-7600K. The Ryzen 7 5700G also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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