AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD 6 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
$ 188.99
$ 30.81 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points
0.15% slightly better overall score
7857 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points
10525 points
11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points
4% slightly better multitasking score
6994 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points
5% slightly better heavy workload score
6774 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points
18% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6449 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points
8% slightly higher Blender score
197.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points
12599 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points
2751 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

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
6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
Identical
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089
152nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Ryzen 7 5800X vs Ryzen 5 7500F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 7500F is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7500F has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7500F. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7500F has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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