AMD Ryzen 7 5700G vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 184.99
$ 136.09 significantly less expensive
$ 321.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7433 points
10212 points
37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8732 points
8774 points
0.48% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7005 points
10786 points
53% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6878 points
11092 points
61% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6694 points
11130 points
66% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

196.94 points
367.23 points
86% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
4.8 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
1024 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

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

16 MiB
64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

174th of 1,102
84th of 1,102

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 5000 G-Series Desktop
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 April
2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 5700G vs Ryzen 9 5900XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900XT is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700G. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700G has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700G CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900XT CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5700G. The Ryzen 9 5900XT 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.

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