AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 235.99
$ 33.01 slightly less expensive
$ 269.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5542 points
9859 points
77% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6612 points
9924 points
50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5172 points
9836 points
90% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5056 points
9828 points
94% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4496 points
10192 points
126% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.60 points
313.97 points
121% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

8891 points
20634 points
132% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5675 points
11764 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1118 points
2141 points
91% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5693 points
11794 points
107% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points
2200 points
92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
3.7 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.8 GHz
20% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
10% slightly lower TDP
105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
Identical
768 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

289th of 1,089
94th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 1800X vs Ryzen 9 5900X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X is faster than the Ryzen 7 1800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1800X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 1800X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 1800X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 1800X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 1800X. A Ryzen 7 1800X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900X 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 9 5900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 1800X. The Ryzen 9 5900X 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 1800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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