AMD Ryzen 7 5800 vs AMD Ryzen 7 260

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 200 Series 8 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

7246 points

7924 points

9% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9033 points

9428 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6679 points

7435 points

11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6542 points

7295 points

11% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

191.07 points

83% significantly higher Blender score

104.21 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

3.80 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.1 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

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

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

175th of 1,089

150th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 5800 vs Ryzen 7 260 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 260 performs better than the Ryzen 7 5800. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 260 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800. Also, the Ryzen 7 260 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 260 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800 thanks to a significantly 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 7 260 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 260.

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 5800 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.