AMD Ryzen 7 7700X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Price

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$ 246.84

$ 190.07

$ 56.77 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10008 points

24% slightly better overall score

8046 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12170 points

11% slightly better gaming score

10893 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9291 points

30% slightly better multitasking score

7125 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9088 points

31% slightly better heavy workload score

6898 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9007 points

36% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6614 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

281.95 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

199.23 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19509 points

53% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

12735 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15168 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

11709 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2857 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

2649 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15466 points

26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

12203 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2977 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2751 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.50 GHz

18% slightly higher clock speed

3.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

5.1 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

Identical

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

33% slightly more L2 cache

6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

Identical

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

89th of 1,089

147th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 7700X vs Ryzen 5 7600 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7700X performs better than the Ryzen 5 7600. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7600 has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7600. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7700X has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7600. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.