AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Price

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$ 301.56

$ 67.44 slightly less expensive

$ 369.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11120 points

13788 points

23% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13778 points

14026 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10239 points

13725 points

34% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9995 points

13727 points

37% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9722 points

13920 points

43% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

302.05 points

462.53 points

53% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16965 points

19790 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3349 points

0.30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

3339 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

4.4 GHz

15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.5 GHz

5.6 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

960 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

12 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

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

35th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 7 9700X vs Ryzen 9 9900X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9900X is faster than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 9700X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 9700X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 9900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X. The Ryzen 9 9900X 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 9700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.