AMD Ryzen 7 7700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 5600GT

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

$ 276.36
$ 149.48
$ 126.88 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10741 points
67% significantly better overall score
6416 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12741 points
47% significantly better gaming score
8665 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10051 points
76% significantly better multitasking score
5694 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9837 points
78% significantly better heavy workload score
5516 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8548 points
54% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
5539 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

266.15 points
90% significantly higher Blender score
139.36 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14835 points
86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7974 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2879 points
41% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2039 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

3.80 GHz
4.59 GHz
20% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz
15% slightly higher turbo speed
4.6 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

74th of 1,089
225th of 1,089

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 5600GT benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700 is faster than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 5600GT in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 7700 has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700 has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 5600GT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 5600GT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5600GT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 7700. Despite this, 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7700 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5600GT. The Ryzen 7 7700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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