AMD’s Ryzen 7 5700X is almost on-par with the 5800X in Geekbench 5

According to Twitter user @BenchLeaks, we now have our first Geekbench 5 score for AMD’s upcoming 65W Ryzen 7 5700X 8 core CPU. Despite the 40W TDP reduction, single-core and multi-core scores are within 2% of AMD’s more power-hungry 5800X, indicating that the 5700X has outstanding power efficiency if these numbers are accurate. Once it arrives, the 5700X should be in our Best CPUs for Gaming list.

AMD introduced the Ryzen 7 5700X two weeks ago, and it will be available on April 4 alongside the Ryzen 5 5600 and 5500. The 5700X will perform similarly to the 3700X, serving as a less expensive and power-hungry alternative to the Ryzen 7 5800X.

The MSRP of $299, which is the same as the 6-core Ryzen 5 5600X, appears to be fairly reasonable. The 5600X’s official MSRP hasn’t changed in the last year or so, and it can now be found routinely in the sub-$250 range, so its official MSRP doesn’t mean anything anymore.

Clock speeds for the 5700X are lower than the 5800X to account for the considerable drop in TDP, but not by much. The base frequency of the 5700X took the biggest hit, dropping 400MHz from the 5800X to 3.4GHz. The boost frequency on the 5700X, however, scarcely changed at all, with a high boost frequency of 4.6GHz, just 100MHz lower than its older sister.

According to Geekbench 5, the 5700X looks to be at the higher boost frequencies of its frequency curve, with a performance gap of less than 2% when compared to the 5800X. In single-threaded tests, the 5700X received 1645 points, and in multi-threaded tests, it received 10196 points. The single-threaded result on Geekbench 5 5800X is 1671 points, while the multi-threaded result is 10338 points.

We can’t blame highly overclocked kits in the 3600-3800MHz range for enhancing the 5700X’s scores because it was tested on an ASRock X570 Taichi motherboard with 32GB of 3200MHz RAM, which is the default spec for Ryzen 5000.

If the results of Geekbench 5 are representative of real-world performance, the 5800X will be practically obsolete, with a performance disparity that is nearly within the margin of error. Furthermore, enabling PBO on the 5700X could further lessen the 1.5-2 percent performance disparity.

Geekbench 5 is known for using workloads that aren’t representative of real-world performance, so you’ll have to wait for our official review and other third-party coverage of the 5700X to find out how it performs.

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