AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 246.84
$ 74.24 significantly less expensive
$ 321.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10008 points
10175 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12170 points
39% slightly better gaming score
8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9291 points
10760 points
15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9088 points
11072 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9007 points
11130 points
23% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

281.95 points
367.23 points
30% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.50 GHz
36% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
12% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
Identical
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

89th 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

2022 September
2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 7700X vs Ryzen 9 5900XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900XT beats the Ryzen 7 7700X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700X 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 7700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X 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. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5900XT 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 7700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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