Ryzen 7 3700X vs Ryzen 9 5900 benchmarks
Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 3700X performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900 in all gaming tests too.
With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 3700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 5900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 3700X. The Ryzen 9 5900 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 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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