AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 455.05
$ 114.00 slightly less expensive
$ 569.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10982 points
15772 points
43% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13108 points
15040 points
14% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10252 points
16008 points
56% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10031 points
16094 points
60% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10082 points
13700 points
35% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

325.43 points
466.69 points
43% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

18346 points
20191 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3336 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
3294 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz
6% slightly higher clock speed
4.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
5.5 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
Identical
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

96 MiB
128 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

70th of 1,089
19th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 November
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Ryzen 9 9900X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D is faster than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 9800X3D in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9900X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D also has slightly 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 9800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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