AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 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

$ 339.99
$ 269.00
$ 70.99 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6549 points
9859 points
50% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points
9924 points
25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6111 points
9836 points
60% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5988 points
9828 points
64% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6209 points
10192 points
64% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.59 points
313.97 points
69% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9081 points
11764 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1720 points
2141 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8236 points
11794 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points
2200 points
29% slightly 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

3.9 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
4.8 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
Identical
105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
768 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
6 MiB
49% 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

218th of 1,089
94th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 3800X vs Ryzen 9 5900X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X is faster than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 3800X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3800X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X 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 9 5900X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3800X. The Ryzen 9 5900X 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 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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