AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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

$ 198.00
$ 171.00 significantly less expensive
$ 369.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6353 points
13915 points
119% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7653 points
14128 points
84% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5918 points
13858 points
134% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5793 points
13860 points
139% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6052 points
13920 points
130% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points
462.53 points
156% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8090 points
19790 points
144% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1674 points
3339 points
99% 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
4.4 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.6 GHz
27% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
84% significantly lower TDP
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
960 KiB
87% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
12 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
64 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

244th of 1,114
32nd of 1,114

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
Yes

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Ryzen 9 9900X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9900X is faster than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 9900X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 3700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700X. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3700X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 9 9900X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3700X. The Ryzen 9 9900X 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 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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