AMD Ryzen 7 7700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 3 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

$ 276.36
$ 145.00
$ 131.36 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10870 points
116% significantly better overall score
5020 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12842 points
87% significantly better gaming score
6843 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10183 points
128% significantly better multitasking score
4448 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9967 points
131% significantly better heavy workload score
4307 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8548 points
54% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
5545 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

266.15 points
88% significantly higher Blender score
141.41 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
166% significantly more cores
3

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
166% significantly more threads
6

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
Identical
65 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

8 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache
3 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

76th of 1,120
360th of 1,120

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 7700 vs Ryzen 5 5500GT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5500GT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700 has significantly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 5500GT has 3 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 5500GT. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 5500GT. The Ryzen 7 7700 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 7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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