AMD Ryzen 7 7700X 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 246.84
$ 160.71 significantly less expensive
$ 407.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10008 points
12696 points
26% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12170 points
12933 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9291 points
12616 points
35% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9088 points
12600 points
38% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9007 points
11128 points
23% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

281.95 points
394.92 points
40% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19509 points
24776 points
26% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15168 points
16762 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2857 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
2797 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15466 points
16768 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2977 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2868 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.50 GHz
21% slightly higher clock speed
3.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
Identical
5.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

89th 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

2022 September
2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 7700X vs Ryzen 9 7900 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900 is faster than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900 has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700X. 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 7900. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. The Ryzen 9 7900 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 7700X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7700X. The Ryzen 9 7900 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 7700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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