AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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

$ 386.14
$ 369.00
$ 17.14 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10011 points
13788 points
37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11884 points
14026 points
18% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9348 points
13725 points
46% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9142 points
13727 points
50% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8010 points
13920 points
73% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

263.24 points
462.53 points
75% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15051 points
19790 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2723 points
3339 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

4.20 GHz
4.4 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
960 KiB
87% 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
49% significantly more L3 cache
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

88th of 1,089
35th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs Ryzen 9 9900X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9900X 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 9900X 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X 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. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 9900X.

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 7800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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