AMD Phenom II X6 1100T vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Compare AMD 6 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 259.99
$ 54.50 slightly less expensive
$ 314.49

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2277 points
13554 points
495% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

3688 points
13457 points
264% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1839 points
13583 points
638% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1764 points
13587 points
670% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

32.04 points
412.82 points
1188% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
12
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
24
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.26 GHz
4.7 GHz
44% significantly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB
12 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

6 MiB
64 MiB
966% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

668th of 1,089
36th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

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Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

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Yes

Phenom II X6 1100T vs Ryzen 9 7900X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900X beats the Phenom II X6 1100T in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Phenom II X6 1100T in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more cores than the Phenom II X6 1100T. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Phenom II X6 1100T. It also has more threads than the Phenom II X6 1100T. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Phenom II X6 1100T. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Phenom II X6 1100T. 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 Phenom II X6 1100T has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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