AMD Ryzen 7 5700X

It might be just a Ryzen 7 5800X3D with slower clocks, but you're still getting great gaming performance for a lot less money. As an AM4 upgrade, it's the sensible...

If this had launched as part of the original Zen 3 lineup it would have been a great mainstream CPU. Today though, there are simply better options out there.

The strongest competitor to the Ryzen 7 5700X is no doubt the Intel Alder Lake Core i5-12600K. While it technically only has six big cores and four E-cores, overall performance is really good in both gaming and apps, better than the Ryzen 7 5700X at a few dollars less. Intel's platform cost is a bit higher, but I still feel like a lot of people will end up picking the Alder Lake configuration because AMD isn't the clear winner in this matchup.

This grab bag of various tests finds the Ryzen 7 5700X exhibiting much the same performance trend as we've seen throughout this round of testing — after tuning, it is essentially the same as the Ryzen 7 5800X. That would be a bit more encouraging if, outside of decompression/compression and cryptography, the Core i5-12600K didn't outperform both Ryzen 7 models in the majority of these workloads.

Whilst the 5700X stands up on it’s own, it brings little value over the 5600X in this day and age, and as we have mentioned before, it struggles to find it’s place in the market and feels somewhat unremarkable. It feels like it’s simply there to bridge a gap in the market, not be a serious contender.

With performance rivaling the Ryzen 7 5800X at a lower price, AMD's Ryzen 7 5700X is arguably the best value in the Ryzen 7 5000 series, but it can't quite stand up to Intel's new "Alder Lake" processors.