Intel Core i9-7900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D

Core i9-7900X vs Ryzen 5 7600X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-7900X beats the Ryzen 5 7600X3D in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-7900X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-7900X. Also, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7600X3D outputs less heat than Core i9-7900X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i9-7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.