AMD Ryzen 7 5700X Review: A Price Cut Disguised as a New Chip
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The Ryzen 7 5700X comes with a price cut compared to its previous-gen counterpart, the 5800X, but it is too little, too late. Intel’s competing processors are faster, less expensive, and have a more modern platform.
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The eight-core 16-thread $299 AMD Ryzen 7 5700X comes to market as a slightly modified yet lower-cost version of its predecessor, the $335 Ryzen 7 5800X, but it offers nearly the same gaming and application performance after a bit of no-hassle tuning. The 5700X debuts as part of AMD’s newest line of seven Ryzen 5000 models that are designed to shore up the company’s rankings in CPU benchmarks and retake its position on the Best CPUs for gaming list. That’s a critical need after Intel’s Alder Lake upset the Ryzen lineup with a better blend of both pricing and performance.
The Ryzen 7 5700X leverages the same Zen 3 architecture and 7nm process as its counterparts and drops into the existing ecosystem of AM4 motherboards. Its predecessor, the 5800X, has always been an oddly-positioned chip, with its price point making it the lone Ryzen 5000 processor that didn’t make much sense for just about anyone due to competing products from both Intel and AMD.
In fact, the 5800X’s positioning was so poor, and the Ryzen 7 5700X’s absence so conspicuous, that we asked where the 5700X was right in the title box of our original review (seen below).
Our Ryzen 7 5800X review lamented the missing Ryzen 7 5700X. (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware)
It took AMD eighteen months, but it has now finally released the Ryzen 7 5700X. It’s certainly late, though. As we explained in our 5800X review back in 2020, AMD really needed the ‘missing’ Ryzen 7 5700X to plug the big pricing gap in its product stack and make it easier for its customers to jump from Ryzen 5 to Ryzen 7 instead of buying an Intel processor.
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However, that was back when AMD competed with Intel’s 10th-Gen processors. The game has changed entirely since then — Intel’s disruptive 12th-Gen x86 hybrid Alder Lake chips are now well established as the overall performance and value leader at every price point, and the company’s 13th-Gen Raptor Lake chips are purportedly on track for release this year.
AMD also has its 5nm Ryzen 7000 ‘Raphael’ Zen 4 chips slated to arrive at the end of the year, but they’ll arrive with the new AM5 platform. Meanwhile, the Ryzen 7 5700X drops into the long-lived Socket AM4 platforms that have shepherded the Ryzen chips from their infancy with the Ryzen 7 1800X in 2017 to the current day, but that cuts off any future upgrade path for adopters.
Naturally, AMD has a different pricing strategy today than we would have seen back in 2020: The 65W Ryzen 7 5700X is $150 less than the launch price of its full-fledged 105W sibling, the Ryzen 7 5800X. That isn’t relevant to today’s pricing situation, though — the 5700X is only $35 less than the 5800X’s average pricing at retail. That isn’t much of a discount.
Given the similarities we’ll see throughout our benchmark suite, the Ryzen 7 5700X is really just a price cut for the Ryzen 7 5800X, but it comes disguised as a new product.
The Ryzen 7 5700X is a solid upgrade choice if you already have a system built around a Ryzen 1000- or 2000-series processor and need more threaded horsepower.
However, if you’re a Ryzen upgrader that’s only interested in gaming, you could save some cash with the Ryzen 5 5600, which offers comparable gaming performance at a much friendlier $199 price point. For new builds, you should look to Intel chips, like the Core i5-12400 or Core i5-12600K, and their more modern accommodations.
Let’s take a quick look at the specs, then get right to our full gaming and application test results.
| Street / MSRP | Cores | Threads | P-Core Base/Boost | E-Core Base/Boost | L3 Cache | TDP / PBP / MTP | DDR4-3200 | |
| Ryzen 9 5900X | $400 ($549) | 12P | 24 Threads | 3.7 / 4.8 GHz | — | 32MB | 105W | DDR4-3200 |
| Ryzen 7 5800X3D | $449 | 8P | 16 Threads | 3.4 / 4.5 GHz | — | 96MB | 105W | DDR4-3200 |
| Ryzen 7 5800X | $335 ($449) | 8P | 16 Threads | 3.8 / 4. 7 GHz |
— | 32MB | 105W | DDR4-3200 |
| Core i7-12700K / KF | $380 (K) — $377 (KF) | 8P + 4E | 12 Cores / 20 Threads | 3.6 / 5.0 GHz | 2.7 / 3.8 GHz | 25MB | 125W / 190W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-4800 |
| Ryzen 7 5700X | $299 | 8P | 16 Threads | 3.4 / 4.6 | — | 32MB | 65W | DDR4-3200 |
| Core i5-12600K / KF | $270 (K) — $264 (KF) | 6P+4E | 10 Cores / 16 Threads | 3.7 / 4.9 | 2.8 / 3.6 | 16MB | 125W / 150W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-4800 |
| Ryzen 5 5600X | $230 ($299) | 6P | 12 Threads | 3.7 / 4.6 | — | 32MB | 65W | DDR4-3200 |
| Ryzen 5 5600 | $199 | 6P | 12 Threads | 3.5 / 4.4 | — | 32MB | 65W | DDR4-3200 |
| Core i5-12400 / F | $175 — $170 (F) | 6P+0E | 6 Cores /12 Threads | 4. 4 / 2.5 |
— | 18MB | 65W / 117W | DDR4-3200 / DDR5-4800 |
The Ryzen 7 5700X slots into the Ryzen stack with eight cores and 16 threads. At $299, the 5700X is the highest-priced 65W part from AMD, filling in the gap between the powerful 105W Ryzen 7 5800X that retails for $335 and the $225 Ryzen 5 5600X that also comes with a 65W TDP.
The Ryzen 7 5700X comes with a 3.4 GHz base, a 4.6 GHz boost clock, and the same chiplet-equipped ‘Vermeer’ design as the existing Ryzen 5000 models. As such, the 65W Ryzen 7 5700X’s eight-core 16-thread design is identical to the 105W Ryzen 7 5800X — they both even have 32MB of L3 cache.
To differentiate the two, AMD merely trimmed the Ryzen 7 5700X’s clock rates to accommodate its 40W lower TDP. As a result, the TDP ratings and clock rates are the only difference between the two chips. This is likely purely the result of artificial segmentation; given the maturity of the TSMC 7nm process, it is unlikely that AMD has many dies that couldn’t reach the extra 100 MHz boost that would make them suitable for the 5800X.
If so, the company could have simply used them for the higher-priced and higher-margin Ryzen 7 5800X3D.
Compared to the 5800X, the 5700X’s 100 MHz lower boost clock rate will be nearly indistinguishable in most work, but the 400 MHz difference in base clocks will be more pronounced in heavily-threaded workloads at stock settings. However, as we’ll demonstrate below, that’s extremely simple to rectify with AMD’s one-click Precision Boost Overdrive (PBO) auto-overclocking feature. If you engage PBO and have a suitable cooler, there is little to no difference between the 5700X and 5800X in threaded workloads.
AMD broke with tradition at the Ryzen 5000 launch and scuttled one of its biggest value-adds; except for its 65W TDP models, AMD stopped providing ‘free’ bundled coolers with its Ryzen processors. Unfortunately, now AMD has inexplicably ditched that policy, too, so the 65W Ryzen 7 5700X also comes without a cooler.
The $299 Ryzen 7 5700X faces intense pressure from Intel’s Alder Lake from both above and below: The less-expensive $175 Core i5-12400 offers slightly faster gaming performance but trails in threaded applications.
However, it comes with a cooler, magnifying the value prop for gamers. Meanwhile, Intel’s $270 Core i5-12600K beats the Ryzen 7 5700X in every facet and also doesn’t have a cooler, but it retails for $30 less to offset Intel’s higher motherboard costs. This is to say that the Ryzen 7 5700X would have certainly been more compelling if it came with a bundled cooler.
The Ryzen 7 5700X fully supports overclocking the CPU, including core clocks, memory, and the Infinity Fabric, and will drop into existing 400- and 500-series motherboards (Socket AM4). AMD’s upcoming BIOS updates will also enable support on most older 300-series platforms. You’ll need a BIOS with AGESA 1.2.0.6b (or newer) for the Ryzen 7 5700X. AMD says that Ryzen 5000 support will vary by vendor, as will the timeline for new BIOS revisions. However, we should see them all by the end of May 2022. These BIOS revisions also fix AMD’s fTPM stuttering issues.
The 5700X also doesn’t support the leading-edge connectivity options, like DDR5 and PCIe 5.
0, that you’ll find with Alder Lake, but it does support up to DDR4-3200 and PCIe 4.0. AMD won’t be able to match intel’s connectivity tech until its 5nm Ryzen 7000 ‘Raphael’ Zen 4 CPUs arrive later this year.
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| Dual AMD EPYC 7h22 |
392 41.506 |
| Dual AMD EPYC 7702 |
397 39.875 |
| Quad Intel Xeon Gold 6254 |
451 36.514 |
| Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C |
447 34.310 |
| AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X |
511 32.321 |
| Dual AMD EPYC 7571 |
373 27.  341 |
| Dual AMD EPYC 7742 |
408 26.692 |
| Quad Intel Xeon Gold 5218 |
438 25.180 |
| AMD EPYC 7h22 |
395 24.822 |
| AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3995WX |
502 23.963 |
| AMD EPYC 7742 |
407 23.138 |
| AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X |
522 21.511 |
| Dual AMD EPYC 7713 |
277 21.359 |
| AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX |
500 20.747 |
| Intel Xeon Platinum 8375C |
444 20.669 |
| Dual AMD EPYC 7451 |
360 20.  437 |
| Dual AMD EPYC 7601 |
355 19.485 |
| Dual Intel Xeon E5-2696 v4 |
444 19.077 |
| Intel Xeon W-3175X |
531 18.413 |
| Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8180 |
285 18.411 |
| AMD EPYC 7571 |
343 18.125 |
| AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3960X |
523 16.553 |
| Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8160 |
396 16.413 |
| AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX |
463 16.317 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X |
784 15.674 |
| Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6140 |
424 15.  054 |
| Dual Intel Xeon E5-2673 v4 |
218 14.962 |
| Intel Core i9-13900K |
802 14.894 |
| Dual Intel Xeon E5-2699 v4 |
320 14.809 |
| Dual Intel Xeon Platinum 8173M |
399 14.804 |
| Dual Intel Xeon E5-2698 v4 |
408 14.619 |
| AMD EPYC 7502P |
386 14.447 |
| Dual Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 |
396 14.111 |
| Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6254 |
402 13.729 |
| Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6154 |
420 13.648 |
| AMD EPYC 7601 |
342 13.  001 |
| AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX |
459 12.953 |
| Dual Intel Xeon Gold 5218 |
323 12.924 |
| Intel Core i9-10980XE |
564 12.774 |
| Dual Intel Xeon Gold 6130 |
376 12.723 |
| Intel Core i7-13700K |
878 12.671 |
| Dual Intel Xeon E5-2683 v4 |
317 12.338 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 5950X |
668 12.331 |
| Dual Intel Xeon Silver 4216 |
365 12.029 |
| Intel Core i9-12900KF |
813 12.011 |
| Intel Core i9-12900KS |
814 11.  923 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X |
766 11.882 |
| Intel Core i9-12900K |
823 11.708 |
| AMD Ryzen 9 3950X |
551 11.087 |
| Dual Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 |
339 11.063 |
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AMD processor performance rating, CPU specifications and scores.
AMD processor performance rating, CPU specifications and scores. Calculated from the most popular CPU benchmarks.
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
Score1
142
Cores
16 / 32
Hertz
4.50 GHz
TDP (PL1)
170 W
Release date
Q4/2022
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
Score1
66
Cores
16
Hertz
3.40 GHz
TDP (PL1)
105 W
Release date
Q4/2020
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 5900
Score1
31
Cores
12
Hertz
3.
50 GHz
TDP (PL1)
65 W
Release date
Q2/2021
Processor
AMD Ryzen Threadripper Pro 3955WX
Score1
22
Cores
16
Hertz
3.90 GHz
TDP (PL1)
280 W
Release date
Q1/2021
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 6980HX
Score1
22
Cores
8 / 16
Hertz
3.30 GHz
TDP (PL1)
45W
Release date
Q1/2022
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H
Score1
21
Cores
8 / 16
Hertz
3.
30 GHz
TDP (PL1)
45 W
Release date
Q2/2022
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950HS
Score1
21
Cores
8 / 16
Hertz
3.30GHz
TDP (PL1)
35 W
Release date
Q2/2022
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX
Score1
20
Cores
8 / 16
Hertz
3.30 GHz
TDP (PL1)
45 W
Release date
Q1/2022
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 6980HS
Score1
20
Cores
8 / 16
Hertz
3.
30 GHz
TDP (PL1)
35 W
Release date
Q1/2022
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS
Score1
20
Cores
8 / 16
Hertz
3.00 GHz
TDP (PL1)
35 W
Release date
Q1/2022
Processor
AMD Ryzen 7 5800
Score1
19
Cores
8
Hertz
3.40 GHz
TDP (PL1)
65 W
Release date
Q2/2021
Processor
AMD Ryzen 7 6800U
Score1
17
Cores
8 / 16
Hertz
2.
70 GHz
TDP (PL1)
15 W
Release date
Q1/2022
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 3900
Score1
17
Cores
12
Hertz
3.10 GHz
TDP (PL1)
65 W
Release date
Q3/2019
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT
Score1
17
Cores
12
Hertz
4.10 GHz
TDP (PL1)
105 W
Release date
Q2/2020
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 3900
Score1
17
Cores
12
Hertz
3.
10 GHz
TDP (PL1)
65 W
Release date
Q3/2019
Processor
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
Score1
16
Cores
16
Hertz
3.50 GHz
TDP (PL1)
105 W
Release date
Q3/2019
Processor
AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 3975WX
Score1
16
Cores
32
Hertz
3.50 GHz
TDP (PL1)
280 W
Release date
Q3/2020
Processor
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D
Score1
15
Cores
8 / 16
Hertz
3.
40 GHz
TDP (PL1)
105 W
Release date
Q4/2020
Processor
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3970X
Score1
15
Cores
32
Hertz
3.70 GHz
TDP (PL1)
280 W
Release date
Q4/2019
Processor
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
Score1
15
Cores
8 / 16
Hertz
3.40 GHz
TDP (PL1)
65 W
Release date
Q2/2022
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Intel Core i9-10980XE
Intel Core i9-9800X
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Intel Xeon Gold 6244
Intel Xeon Gold 6230
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Intel Core i9-9990XE
Intel Xeon Platinum 8180M
Intel Xeon E-2226GE
AMD Ryzen 7 1800X
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Intel Xeon W-2133
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AMD processor performance ranking in 2022
AMD processor performance ranking in 2022
AMD processor rating sorted by VsRank score.
The final score is calculated based on the parameters of the processors and the results of their comparisons. You can also sort the results by benchmarks and processor specs.
Last update: 10/26/2022.
| # | Processor | VsRank points | MHz | Cores | Cinebench R20 Multi-Core | Cinebench R15 Multi-Core | Geekbench 5 Multi Core | Geekbench 4. 4 Multi-Core |
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| 1 | AMD Ryzen 9 3900X | 11980 | 3800 | 12 | 3049 | 6910 | 43978 | — | 07/07/2018 |
| 2 | AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X | 11936 | 3500 | 16 | 3110 | — | 36198 | — | 08/31/2018 |
| 3 | AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X | 11868 | 3400 | 16 | 2944 | — | 28877 | — | 08/10/2017 |
| 4 | AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X | 11867 | 3500 | 12 | 2628 | — | 35922 | — | 03. 10.2018 |
| 5 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700X | 11806 | 3700 | 8 | 1801 | — | 25919 | — | 04/19/2018 |
| 6 | AMD Ryzen 7 3700X | 11794 | 3600 | 8 | 2092 | 4782 | 34757 | — | 07/07/2019 |
| 7 | AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2970WX | 11779 | 3000 | 24 | 4376 | — | 32029 | — | 10/29/2018 |
| 8 | AMD Epyc 7F52 | 11768 | 3500 | 16 | — | — | — | — | 04/14/2020 |
| 9 | AMD Epyc 7F52 | 11768 | 3500 | 16 | — | — | — | — | 04/14/2020 |
| 10 | AMD Ryzen 7 1800X | 11679 | 3600 | 8 | 1619 | 3677 | — | — | 03/02/2017 |
| 11 | AMD Epyc 7F32 | 11651 | 3700 | 8 | — | — | — | — | 04/14/2020 |
| 12 | AMD Epyc 7F32 | 11651 | 3700 | 8 | — | — | — | — | 04/14/2020 |
| 13 | AMD Epyc 7F72 | 11620 | 3200 | 24 | — | — | — | — | 04/14/2020 |
| 14 | AMD Epyc 7F72 | 11620 | 3200 | 24 | — | — | — | — | 04/14/2020 |
| 15 | AMD Ryzen 5 2600X | 11601 | 3600 | 6 | 1341 | — | 21616 | — | 04/19/2018 |
| 16 | AMD Ryzen 7 2700 | 11600 | 3200 | 8 | 1551 | — | 22776 | — | 04/19/2018 |
| 17 | AMD Epyc 7371 | 11585 | 3100 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | AMD Ryzen 7 1700X | 11512 | 3400 | 8 | 1537 | 3280 | 24555 | — | 03/02/2017 |
| 19 | AMD Ryzen 5 2600 | 11414 | 3400 | 6 | 1270 | — | 20633 | — | 04/19/2018 |
| 20 | AMD Ryzen 7 1700 | 11284 | 3000 | 8 | 1413. 85 |
— | 18457 | — | 03/02/2017 |
| 21 | AMD Epyc 7542 | 11241 | 2900 | 32 | — | — | — | — | 08/07/2019 |
| 22 | AMD Ryzen 5 1600 | 11149 | 3200 | 6 | 1127 | 2484 | 17511. 5 |
5117 | 04/11/2017 |
| 23 | AMD Epyc 7302 | 11109 | 3000 | 16 | — | — | — | — | 08/07/2019 |
| 24 | AMD Epyc 7302P | 11109 | 3000 | 16 | — | — | — | — | 08/07/2019 |
| 25 | AMD Epyc 7402P | 11094 | 2800 | 24 | — | — | — | — | 08/07/2019 |
| 26 | AMD Epyc 7402 | 11094 | 2800 | 24 | — | — | — | — | 08/07/2019 |
| 27 | AMD Epyc 7262 | 11001 | 3100 | 8 | — | — | — | — | 08/07/2019 |
| 28 | AMD Epyc 7h22 | 10933 | 2600 | 64 | — | — | — | — | 09/18/2019 |
| 29 | AMD Epyc 7h22 | 10933 | 2600 | 64 | — | — | — | — | 09/18/2019 |
| 30 | AMD Epyc 7232P | 10923 | 3100 | 8 | — | — | — | — | 08/07/2019 |
| 31 | AMD Ryzen 5 2400G | 10906 | 3600 | 4 | 856 | — | 13653 | — | 02/12/2018 |
| 32 | AMD Epyc 7282 | 10891 | 2800 | 16 | — | — | — | — | 08/07/2019 |
| 33 | AMD Epyc 7502P | 10857 | 2500 | 32 | — | — | — | — | 08/07/2019 |
| 34 | AMD Epyc 7502 | 10857 | 2500 | 32 | — | — | — | — | 08/07/2019 |
| 35 | AMD Epyc 7642 | 10807 | 2400 | 48 | — | — | — | — | 08/07/2019 |
| 36 | AMD Ryzen 5 1500X | 10751 | 3500 | 4 | 806.
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