Intel Core i7-9700 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Price

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$ 338.78

$ 314.49

$ 24.29 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5190 points

13554 points

161% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7573 points

13457 points

77% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4403 points

13583 points

208% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4217 points

13587 points

222% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

5171 points

12798 points

147% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

106.42 points

412.82 points

287% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6174 points

17426 points

182% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1526 points

2844 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

6222 points

17750 points

185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1571 points

2946 points

87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

200% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3 GHz

4.7 GHz

56% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5.6 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

161% significantly lower TDP

170 W

PCIe Lanes

Number of physical connections between the CPU and expansion slots

49% significantly more pcie lanes

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

Supported Memory

Maximum amount of RAM supported by this CPU

128 GiB

Identical

128 GiB

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

768 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

12 MiB

499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

12 MiB

64 MiB

433% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

326th of 1,089

36th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i7

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Core i7-9700 vs Ryzen 9 7900X comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X is faster than the Core i7-9700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-9700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-9700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9700. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i7-9700 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 7900X has more L2 cache than the Core i7-9700. The Ryzen 9 7900X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. For instance, the Core i7-9700 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.