AMD Ryzen 7 8700F vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Ryzen 7 8700F vs Ryzen 9 5900XT benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900XT beats the Ryzen 7 8700F in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8700F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 8700F has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700F has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 8700F CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900XT CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5900XT 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 8700F has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.