AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Ryzen 9 7900X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900X beats the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5800X3D CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7900X CPU because of its 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 7900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X.

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 5800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.