AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 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
$ 157.50
$ 62.30 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points
2% slightly better overall score
7663 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points
2% slightly better gaming score
9257 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points
2% slightly better multitasking score
7115 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points
3% slightly better heavy workload score
6951 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points
15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6611 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
187.49 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8779 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1998 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

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
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 GHz

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
Identical
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
Identical
4 MiB

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

151st of 1,089
160th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

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 7 5700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 5700 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 7 5800X 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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