AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 16 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

$ 329.99
$ 321.08
$ 8.91 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6994 points
10175 points
45% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8202 points
8712 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6575 points
10760 points
63% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6440 points
11072 points
71% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6750 points
11130 points
64% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

187.18 points
367.23 points
96% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.58 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
4.8 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
Identical
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
1024 KiB
100% significantly 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

96 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

194th of 1,089
83rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5000 Series
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January
2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 5700X3D vs Ryzen 9 5900XT comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5900XT performs better than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X3D in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900XT 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 5900XT.

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 5700X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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