AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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

$ 386.14
$ 321.08
$ 65.06 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10011 points
10175 points
1% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11884 points
36% slightly better gaming score
8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9348 points
10760 points
15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9142 points
11072 points
21% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8010 points
11130 points
38% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

263.24 points
367.23 points
39% 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

4.20 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
4% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
105 W
14% slightly lower TDP

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

96 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

88th 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 April
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 7800X3D vs Ryzen 9 5900XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900XT beats the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Also, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 5900XT outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 7800X3D thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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 7800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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