Scala+Gradle: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 vs 5700X

Scala+Gradle: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 vs 5700X

My other CPU comparison: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 (very similar to 3700X, Zen 2 based, 8 cores, 3.6/4.4GHz) vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X (Zen 3 based, 8 cores, 3.4/4.6GHz). The previous comparison was done in the raw image processing program ART.

This time I compared the build time of a Scala project using Gradle (64-bit Java 1.8.0_221). The project is not too big, but it uses macros which slow down the build a lot.

Source lines of code (without blank and comment, calculated with cloc):

Java: 71653 (most of them auto-generated)

Scala: 39151

Java: Oracle JDK 1.8.0_221 (64-bit Server VM)

Scala: 3.3.3

Gradle: 8.11.1

Build time (best result of several attempts):

AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700: 55-56 seconds

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X: 49-50 seconds

The performance gain is again around 14-15%.

See also related notes:

• DDR4 3000 vs DDR4 3600 (2025-02-11)

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