AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX3D

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

11169 points

15323 points

37% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13813 points

14466 points

4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10291 points

15645 points

52% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10045 points

15813 points

57% significantly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

302.05 points

543.98 points

80% 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

128 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

72nd of 1,120

20th of 1,120

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 9955HX3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 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 9955HX3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9700X 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 significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9955HX3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 9700X. The Ryzen 9 9955HX3D 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.