AMD Ryzen 7 3800X 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 339.99
$ 301.56
$ 38.43 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6549 points
11120 points
69% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points
13778 points
74% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6111 points
10239 points
67% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5988 points
9995 points
66% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6209 points
9722 points
56% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.59 points
302.05 points
62% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8236 points
16965 points
105% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points
3349 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.5 GHz
22% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

218th 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
Yes

Ryzen 7 3800X vs Ryzen 7 9700X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 9700X 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.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 3800X thanks to a 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 7 9700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3800X. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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