AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Compare AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 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

$ 329.99
$ 77.56 slightly less expensive
$ 407.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6994 points
12696 points
81% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8202 points
12933 points
57% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6575 points
12616 points
91% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6440 points
12600 points
95% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6750 points
11128 points
64% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

187.18 points
394.92 points
110% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10106 points
16768 points
65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1922 points
2868 points
49% 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

3.58 GHz
3.70 GHz
3% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
5.4 GHz
31% 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
768 KiB
49% 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

96 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

194th of 1,089
45th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5000 Series
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 5700X3D vs Ryzen 9 7900 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900 is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X3D in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7900 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5700X3D thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 7900.

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

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