AMD Ryzen 7 7700X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Price

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$ 246.84

$ 430.15 significantly less expensive

$ 676.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10008 points

14398 points

43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12170 points

13255 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9291 points

14804 points

59% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9088 points

14984 points

64% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9007 points

14388 points

59% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

281.95 points

537.64 points

90% significantly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19509 points

36291 points

86% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15168 points

19516 points

28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2857 points

2881 points

0.84% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15466 points

19647 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2977 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2926 points

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

4.50 GHz

7% slightly higher clock speed

4.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz

5.7 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

14% slightly lower TDP

120 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

16 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

128 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

89th of 1,089

27th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 7700X vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D beats the Ryzen 7 7700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 7700X. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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.