AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11148 points
46% significantly better overall score
7598 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13799 points
33% slightly better gaming score
10348 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10269 points
53% significantly better multitasking score
6695 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10024 points
54% significantly better heavy workload score
6473 points

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Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

302.05 points
51% significantly higher Blender score
199.09 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
4.00 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
96 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

68th of 1,091
161st of 1,091

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 7 9700X vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 9700X performs better than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7500X3D in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 9700X has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 9700X. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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