AMD Ryzen 7 7700 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 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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AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Price

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$ 276.36

$ 131.19 significantly less expensive

$ 407.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10739 points

12696 points

18% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12739 points

12933 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10048 points

12616 points

25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9834 points

12600 points

28% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8548 points

11128 points

30% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

266.15 points

394.92 points

48% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

18760 points

24776 points

32% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14475 points

16762 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2771 points

2797 points

0.94% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

14835 points

16768 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2879 points

0.38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2868 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

5.4 GHz

1% 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

768 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% 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

74th of 1,089

45th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

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 9 7900 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900 beats the Ryzen 7 7700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700 in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7900. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 7900 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7700. The Ryzen 9 7900 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 7700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.