AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

10987 points
46% significantly better overall score
7478 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13112 points
30% slightly better gaming score
10030 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10257 points
54% significantly better multitasking score
6652 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10037 points
55% significantly better heavy workload score
6441 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

325.43 points
63% significantly higher Blender score
199.09 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
33% slightly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
33% slightly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz
17% slightly higher clock speed
4.00 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

96 MiB
Identical
96 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

71st of 1,099
170th of 1,099

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D performs better than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7500X3D in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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 9800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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