AMD Ryzen 7 8700G vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Ryzen 7 8700G vs Ryzen 9 5900XT benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5900XT performs better than the Ryzen 7 8700G. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 8700G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 8700G. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900XT has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 8700G. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 8700G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Also, the Ryzen 7 8700G has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 8700G 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. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. 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 8700G has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.