AMD Ryzen 7 5800X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 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

$ 219.80
$ 580.19 significantly less expensive
$ 799.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7869 points
13385 points
70% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9478 points
13203 points
39% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7328 points
13450 points
83% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7169 points
13474 points
87% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

213.11 points
398.41 points
86% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10085 points
17603 points
74% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2119 points
2784 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10211 points
17560 points
71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2193 points
2866 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
4.40 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.6 GHz
19% 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

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
128 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

151st of 1,089
38th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2023 February

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 9 7900X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5800X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7900X3D CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. 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 7900X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X. The Ryzen 9 7900X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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