Ryzen 7 5800X: specs and benchmarks

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Ryzen 7 5800X
2020
8 cores / 16 threads, 105 Watt
17.52

Ryzen 7 5800X provides good benchmark performance at 17.52% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.

Summary

AMD started Ryzen 7 5800X sales 5 November 2020 at a recommended price of $449. This is a Vermeer (Zen 3) architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 8 cores and 16 threads, and is based on 7 nm, 12 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 4700 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.

Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM4 processor with a TDP of 105 Watt and a maximum temperature of 95 °C. It supports DDR4 memory.

Primary details

Ryzen 7 5800X processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.

Place in the ranking361
Place by popularity49
Cost-effectiveness evaluation24.49
Market segmentDesktop processor
SeriesAMD Ryzen 7
Power efficiency15.79of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme)
Architecture codenameVermeer (Zen 3) (2020−2022)
Release date5 November 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

Detailed specifications

Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.

Physical cores8 (Octa-Core)
Threads16
Base clock speed3.8 GHzof 4.7 GHz (FX-9590)
Boost clock speed4.7 GHzof 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS)
Multiplier38of 42 (Core i7-7700K)
L1 cache64K (per core)of 80 KB (EPYC 9965)
L2 cache512K (per core)of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P)
L3 cache32 MBof 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X)
Chip lithography7 nm, 12 nmof 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core)
Die size2 x 80.7 sq. mm; I/O = 125 mm2
Maximum core temperature90 °Cof 110 °C (Atom x7-E3950)
Maximum case temperature (TCase)95 °Cof 105 °C (Core i7-5950HQ)
64 bit support+
Windows 11 compatibility+
Unlocked multiplier+

Compatibility

Information on Ryzen 7 5800X compatibility with other computer components and devices: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration1of 8 (Opteron 842)
SocketAM4
Power consumption (TDP)105 Wattof 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P)

Technologies and extensions

Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 7 5800X. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHA
AES-NI+
AVX+
Precision Boost 2+

Virtualization technologies

Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.

AMD-V+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 7 5800X's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR4
Maximum memory size128 GBof 6 TiB (EPYC 9124)
Max memory channels2of 12 (Xeon Platinum 9221)
Maximum memory bandwidth51.196 GB/sof 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124)

Graphics specifications

General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 7 5800X.

Integrated graphics card-

Peripherals

Specifications and connection types of supported peripherals.

PCIe version4.0of 5.0 (Core i9-12900K)

Benchmark performance

Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 7 5800X. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

Ryzen 7 5800X 17.52

Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Ryzen 7 5800X 27829

GeekBench 5 Single-Core

GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.

Ryzen 7 5800X 2199

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core

GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.

Ryzen 7 5800X 10251

Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core

Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.

Ryzen 7 5800X 6835

Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.

Ryzen 7 5800X 45548

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Ryzen 7 5800X 15873

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.

Ryzen 7 5800X 29

Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core

Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.

Ryzen 7 5800X 2609

Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.

Ryzen 7 5800X 266

Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core

Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.

Ryzen 7 5800X 3.09

TrueCrypt AES

TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.

Ryzen 7 5800X 15

WinRAR 4.0

WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.

Ryzen 7 5800X 15604

x264 encoding pass 2

x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.  

Ryzen 7 5800X 152

x264 encoding pass 1

x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.  

Ryzen 7 5800X 339

Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core

Ryzen 7 5800X 10724

Blender(-)

Ryzen 7 5800X 197

Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core

Ryzen 7 5800X 1683

7-Zip Single

Ryzen 7 5800X 6907

7-Zip

Ryzen 7 5800X 72114

WebXPRT 3

Ryzen 7 5800X 302

CrossMark Overall

Ryzen 7 5800X 1541

WebXPRT 4 Overall

Ryzen 7 5800X 245

Blender v3.3 Classroom CPU(-)

Ryzen 7 5800X 336

Gaming performance

Closest competitors

Ryzen 7 5800X's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop CPUs.


Core i9-9940X 100.57
Ryzen 7 5800X 100

Intel equivalent

According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 7 5800X is Core i5-12600KF, which is nearly equal in speed and higher by 3 positions in our ranking.

Here are some closest Intel rivals to Ryzen 7 5800X:

Core i9-9940X 100.57
Ryzen 7 5800X 100

Similar processors

Here is our recommendation of several processors that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.

Recommended GPUs

People consider these graphics cards to be good for Ryzen 7 5800X, according to our PC configuration statistics.

These are the fastest graphics cards for Ryzen 7 5800X in our user configuration statistics. There is a total of 29624 configurations using Ryzen 7 5800X in our database.

RTX 4090 GeForce RTX 4090
1.5% (448/29624)
RTX 4080 GeForce RTX 4080
0.6% (163/29624)
RTX 4080 SUPER GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER
0.2% (53/29624)
RTX 4070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 Ti
2.1% (614/29624)
RX 7900 XTX Radeon RX 7900 XTX
0.3% (101/29624)
RTX 4070 SUPER GeForce RTX 4070 SUPER
1.1% (320/29624)
RTX 3090 Ti GeForce RTX 3090 Ti
0.5% (154/29624)
RX 7900 XT Radeon RX 7900 XT
0.5% (136/29624)
RTX 6000 Ada Generation RTX 6000 Ada Generation
0.003% (1/29624)

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