AMD Ryzen 7 5700X: What Real Users Say About AM4's Budget 8-Core

It's no secret energy efficiency goes down when you let one CPU clock higher and closer to silicon's limits. The 5700X gets different performance because it's power-limited vs the 5800X.

Either upgrade to this or hold out for the 5800x3d to drop to $300 again if you want the very best for like a 7900XT/XTX or 4080/4090.

If you powerlimit a 5800x to 65w its efficiency eclipses that of the 5700x and even that of the 5600x.

At $140-160, yes. 5700X, 5800X, and 5800XT are all the same physical chip so buy whichever is cheapest. Only difference is boost clock and power limits. Meaning a 5700X with PBO tuning is a stock 5800XT. 2x8GB of RAM isn't enough for all modern games. Grab a 2x16GB 3600 CL18 kit.

The 5700X sits in the sweet spot of efficiency. It's simply a chip operating well within its performance envelope, which is why it looks so efficient compared to the 5800X.

I found myself very frustrated by the number of reviews of Zen3 with no PBO2 or curve optimizer. When I saw benchmarks of 5700x barely beating my 3700x scores in Cinebench I knew they were only run in a very stock setting.

Yes it is still relevant in budget builds, although with a faster cpu you would get more performance out of the 6950 XT. The 5700x is bottlenecking it to some degree, but to have it make noticeable stutter is weird. Turning all your settings to low would put the load more on your CPU actually. Like at 4k, 5700x would still be very much relevant.

Specs sound good to me.

1.8% faster than a 5600x at 1080p. 1% faster than a 5600x at 1440p. Nothing to see here.

It is a solid chip, I have one in a build with a 7800XT and it is a 1440P gaming brute.

My dude even a 2700X is still 'relevant' in 2025. This is fine, spec wise.

Runs cooler and more efficient than the 5800x. Good review and glad they did some PBO and overclocking.

Yeah it's good. I don't get people saying the 5600x performs the same. The 5700x is about 95% a 5800x — it is stronger than the 5600x. But if you can afford some good cooler you might prefer the 5700x3d.

I have the 5700x and its still going strong. I paired it with an RTX 5070 and nothing has stopped me yet.

Loving these AM4 price drops. The value of them is pretty great with how much mobos and ram has dropped too.

You will absolutely gain a ton of frames upgrading from a 1st gen Ryzen. The difference here is night and day, especially at 1080p.

Good cpu, can handle everything you throw at it. Had it for over a year before upgrading to x3d.

A very good CPU that more than enough for the average computer user.

2133mhz ram is absolutely kneecapping that poor 5700x. 3200/3600mhz, remove the slower 2400 kits and enable XMP via bios.

The most efficient 8-core CPU by far.

The R7 5700X makes sense as long as the buyer is just upgrading from previous AM4 platform and it is cheaper than the 5800X. I'd probably choose a 5700X over 5800X due to cooling reasons — the 5700X runs cooler and performance is identical enough.

The 3D variants are objectively good, but they are in short supply for the 5000 series, so I don't think they are worth the second hand price. I went for the 5800x since I want to ride out the motherboard for AM6.

It's a fantastic CPU. All these guys are saying is it's not top of the line. But you're about 80 to 90% of the way there.

Swapped this out for my 3700x and it's seemingly consuming less power at times during gaming. I'm blown away by this CPU.

Nearly 5800X performance at less wattage and only $170? That's a deal.

I just lightly game now at 1080 so this should hold for at least 2 more years till AM5 matures. Gotta love the AM4 socket.

For gaming it won't make much difference going from a 5600 to a 5700X. You would want to get the 5700x3d to feel a more significant difference.

No matter what you do, you will not notice the bottleneck between a 5700X and a 4070 TI. Even if you had a 4070 TI with the 5700X you probably won't notice any bottleneck.

Anything above 5600 (not counting the 'g' chips) is good enough performance for most people. The 5600 was crowned the budget king and the 5700 is better than it.

There's a decent chance just upgrading the CPU to a 5700X3D will fix your issue and give you a couple more years of life on your current build. You should be able to sell your old 5700X for $75 to $90 easily to help get some money back.

I bought one of these used for $150 maybe 3 or 4 months ago to replace a 1600x. The difference was amazing for both gaming and for productivity purposes. I have a GTX 1080.

Shoutout to AMD and AsRock for their forward compatibility support with the X370 Taichi — legendary motherboard. This will be a huge upgrade from a Ryzen 1700.

Yep any of the modern 8 core with the X is a good call. Just recommend to update the board BIOS beforehand, and upgrade the cooler if using the stock cooler.

All of the non-X3D Ryzen 5000 CPUs perform within roughly 2% of each other for gaming, so there's little point in going from a 5600 to a 5700X. The only viable upgrade over the 5600 is a 5700X3D.

I ran a 5700X and a 4070 for a couple of years and it ran perfectly fine.

5700X is still a good CPU for the level of card you want.

DDR4 3200 CL16 is all that is/was/ever actually supported on Zen3. I had FCLK issues at DDR4 3600 despite the 'wisdom' of reddit. Try OCCT and checking for ram/CPU errors if you're having issues.

It will do the job. Stock it's a bit better than 10400f with 2 more cores but if you use PBO and curve optimizer it will be about 500mhz faster. It's as fast as 5800x, but you would need a decent cooler. You can even stream using that CPU.

The real answer is no since Dragon Dogma 2, MH Wilds and Stalker 2 destroyed CPU that was released 3 years ago. X3D version might help a little bit, but if you ignore those games, it actually still relevant.

5700x can easily handle rtx5070/rx9070 at 1440p/4k. So unless you want to push as many frames as possible or don't play at 1080p, pick 5700x. 5800x is slightly more powerful, both cost same, but takes a lot more power.

The 5800x has been a gaming workhorse for me for years. Spend the extra.

Have an R7 5800x and just upgraded to a 5070Ti. Runs great and rarely seen anything above 60% usage even in the BF6 beta at 1440p 144Hz monitor with balanced settings.

My 5700X goes to 4.65ghz and 4.0ghz allcore with stock settings. Curve optimizer allcore -30 and override +200. Still on stock PPT TDC and EDC boosting to 4850mhz. Temps max 60°C with 360mm AIO. Pretty efficient chip I think.