AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

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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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Price

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$ 198.00

$ 103.56 significantly less expensive

$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6345 points

11120 points

75% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points

13778 points

80% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points

10239 points

73% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points

9995 points

72% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6052 points

9722 points

60% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points

302.05 points

67% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8090 points

16965 points

109% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1674 points

3349 points

100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

3.8 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz

5.5 GHz

25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

640 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

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

32 MiB

Identical

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

233rd of 1,089

67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Ryzen 7 9700X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9700X beats the Ryzen 7 3700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700X 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. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 7 9700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3700X. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.