AMD Ryzen 7 7700 vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 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 9700X

Price

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$ 276.36

$ 25.20 slightly less expensive

$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10739 points

11120 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12739 points

13778 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10048 points

10239 points

1% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9834 points

9995 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8548 points

9722 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

266.15 points

302.05 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14835 points

16965 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2879 points

3349 points

16% slightly 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

3.80 GHz

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

5.5 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 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

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

Identical

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

74th of 1,089

67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 7700 vs Ryzen 7 9700X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9700X is faster than the Ryzen 7 7700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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 7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.