Ryzen 7 9700X vs Ryzen 7 9850X3D comparison
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D beats the Ryzen 7 9700X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 9700X. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 9850X3D also has significantly more 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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