AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 16 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
$ 19.52 slightly less expensive
$ 321.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11120 points
9% slightly better overall score
10175 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13778 points
58% significantly better gaming score
8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10239 points
10760 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9995 points
11072 points
10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9722 points
11130 points
14% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

302.05 points
367.23 points
21% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed
3.30 GHz

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
1024 KiB
60% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
Identical
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
64 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

67th of 1,089
83rd 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 9 5900XT comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9700X beats the Ryzen 9 5900XT in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900XT in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900XT has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 9700X 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5900XT 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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