AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

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

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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Price

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$ 339.99

$ 46.15 slightly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6549 points

10011 points

52% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points

11884 points

50% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6111 points

9348 points

52% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5988 points

9142 points

52% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6209 points

8010 points

29% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.59 points

263.24 points

41% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8236 points

15051 points

82% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points

2723 points

59% 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

3.9 GHz

4.20 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

5 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

14% slightly lower TDP

120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 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

32 MiB

96 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

218th of 1,089

88th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 3800X vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D performs better than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3800X. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 3800X. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.