AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 195.99
$ 259.06 significantly less expensive
$ 455.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4528 points
10982 points
142% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5692 points
13108 points
130% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

4151 points
10252 points
146% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

4054 points
10031 points
147% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4254 points
10082 points
137% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

131.79 points
325.43 points
146% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5573 points
18346 points
229% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1100 points
3336 points
203% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
4.7 GHz
38% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.8 GHz
5.2 GHz
36% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
26% slightly lower TDP
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
20% slightly more L1 cache
640 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
96 MiB
499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

386th of 1,089
70th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 1700X vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D beats the Ryzen 7 1700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 1700X. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 1700X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 1700X. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 7 1700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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