AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X vs AMD Ryzen 5 5500GT

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD 3 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3588 points

5020 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5548 points

6843 points

23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2965 points

4448 points

50% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2883 points

4307 points

49% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

137.16 points

141.41 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

3.6 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz

4.4 GHz

15% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

3 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

476th of 1,089

345th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 June

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X vs Ryzen 5 5500GT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X beats the Ryzen 5 5500GT in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 5500GT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 5500GT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 PRO 1700X has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 5500GT. 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 PRO 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.