AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT

Price

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$ 184.99

$ 205.00 significantly less expensive

$ 389.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7430 points

8378 points

12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8722 points

2% slightly better gaming score

8533 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7004 points

8330 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6877 points

8329 points

21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6694 points

8585 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points

275.17 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8659 points

10007 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1948 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1698 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8946 points

9918 points

10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2013 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1737 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

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

4.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

768 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

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

16 MiB

64 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

168th of 1,089

131st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April

2020 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Ryzen 9 3900XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3900XT is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700G. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700G in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5700G that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700G. According to our data, the Ryzen 7 5700G and Ryzen 9 3900XT have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700G CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 3900XT CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5700G. The Ryzen 9 3900XT 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 5700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.