AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 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

$ 455.05
$ 199.20
$ 255.85 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10982 points
33% slightly better overall score
8204 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13108 points
36% slightly better gaming score
9603 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10252 points
32% slightly better multitasking score
7740 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10031 points
32% slightly better heavy workload score
7593 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10082 points
32% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
7628 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

325.43 points
51% significantly higher Blender score
214.43 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed
3.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed
4.8 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
105 W
14% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

640 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

96 MiB
200% significantly more L3 cache
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

70th of 1,089
140th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 November
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 9800X3D vs Ryzen 7 5800XT specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800XT in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5800XT. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800XT outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 7 9800X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800XT. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 9800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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