AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs Intel Core i5-3450

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel Core 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

$ 219.80
$ 95.00
$ 124.80 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points
303% significantly better overall score
1948 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points
165% significantly better gaming score
3568 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points
391% significantly better multitasking score
1491 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points
400% significantly better heavy workload score
1432 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points
604% significantly higher Blender score
30.26 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points
457% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1809 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points
246% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
611 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points
474% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1776 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points
261% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
606 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
22% slightly higher clock speed
3.1 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
34% slightly higher turbo speed
3.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
77 W
36% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB
300% significantly more supported memory
32 GiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089
727th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Core

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2012 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR3-1333

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
No

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Core i5-3450 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 5800X performs better than the Core i5-3450. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-3450 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 5800X has significantly more cores than the Core i5-3450. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has 8 cores compared to 4 cores found in the Core i5-3450. It also has more threads than the Core i5-3450. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i5-3450. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-3450 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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