AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 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

11120 points

11380 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13778 points

30% slightly better gaming score

10581 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10239 points

11723 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9995 points

11982 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

9722 points

15023 points

54% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

302.05 points

538.07 points

78% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

52% significantly higher clock speed

2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.5 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

5.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

55 W

18% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB

1280 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

16 MiB

100% 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

61st 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 9955HX comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9955HX is faster than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9955HX 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. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 9700X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 9700X. The Ryzen 9 9955HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.