AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 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

$ 301.56
$ 199.20
$ 102.36 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11120 points
35% slightly better overall score
8204 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13778 points
43% significantly better gaming score
9603 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10239 points
32% slightly better multitasking score
7740 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9995 points
31% slightly better heavy workload score
7593 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9722 points
27% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7628 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

302.05 points
40% slightly higher Blender score
214.43 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
3.80 GHz
0.03% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.5 GHz
14% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
Identical
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

67th of 1,089
140th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August
2024 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 9700X vs Ryzen 7 5800XT comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9700X is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800XT in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 9700X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 5800XT CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 7 9700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800XT. However, both these chips have the same amount of L3 cache.

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 9700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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