AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 vs AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 8000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 8500G

Price

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$ 1583.00

$ 155.73

$ 1427.27 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6502 points

17% slightly better overall score

5521 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7833 points

8044 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6045 points

26% slightly better multitasking score

4773 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5906 points

27% slightly better heavy workload score

4617 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

184.03 points

15% slightly higher Blender score

159.49 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7993 points

9444 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1652 points

2354 points

42% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.6 GHz

1% slightly higher clock speed

3.55 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

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

220th of 1,089

291st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 vs Ryzen 5 8500G comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 performs better than the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8500G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8500G. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8500G 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 8500G has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 5 8500G.

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 3700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.