AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

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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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Price

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$ 219.80

$ 235.25 significantly less expensive

$ 455.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points

10982 points

39% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points

13108 points

38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points

10252 points

39% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points

10031 points

39% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points

10082 points

32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points

325.43 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points

18346 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points

3336 points

52% 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

3.8 GHz

4.7 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5.2 GHz

10% 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

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

96 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089

70th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 7 5800X vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D beats the Ryzen 7 5800X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X 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 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. 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 7 9800X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.