AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

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 7900X3D

Price

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$ 386.14

$ 413.85 significantly less expensive

$ 799.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10011 points

13385 points

33% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11884 points

13203 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9348 points

13450 points

43% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9142 points

13474 points

47% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

263.24 points

398.41 points

51% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15051 points

17560 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2723 points

2866 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

4.20 GHz

4.40 GHz

4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

5.6 GHz

11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

Identical

120 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

96 MiB

128 MiB

33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

88th of 1,089

38th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs Ryzen 9 7900X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D is faster than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. The Ryzen 9 7900X3D also has slightly 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.