AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500X3D

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7871 points
38% slightly better overall score
5696 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9480 points
20% slightly better gaming score
7862 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7330 points
46% significantly better multitasking score
4989 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7171 points
48% significantly better heavy workload score
4822 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points
47% significantly higher Blender score
144.95 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
26% slightly higher clock speed
3.00 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed
4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
Identical
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
96 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

161st of 1,112
288th of 1,112

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2025 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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