AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

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Price

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$ 219.80
$ 187.75 significantly less expensive
$ 407.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points
13130 points
66% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points
13237 points
39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points
13087 points
78% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points
13070 points
82% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7634 points
11128 points
45% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points
394.92 points
85% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

15711 points
24776 points
57% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points
16762 points
66% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points
2797 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points
16768 points
64% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points
2868 points
30% 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

3.8 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.4 GHz
14% 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

32 MiB
64 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

157th of 1,098
40th of 1,098

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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