AMD Ryzen 7 7700 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Price

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$ 276.36

$ 44.72 slightly less expensive

$ 321.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10741 points

5% slightly better overall score

10175 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12741 points

46% significantly better gaming score

8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10051 points

10760 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9837 points

11072 points

12% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8548 points

11130 points

30% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

266.15 points

367.23 points

37% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

1024 KiB

100% significantly 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

64 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

74th of 1,089

83rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 7700 vs Ryzen 9 5900XT comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5900XT performs better than the Ryzen 7 7700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 7700 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900XT 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, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5900XT 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 7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.