AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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

10982 points
11380 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13108 points
23% slightly better gaming score
10581 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10252 points
11723 points
14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10031 points
11982 points
19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10082 points
15023 points
49% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

325.43 points
538.07 points
65% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz
87% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
5.4 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
55 W
118% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

96 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

70th of 1,089
61st 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
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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 9955HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9955HX beats the Ryzen 7 9800X3D in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9955HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 9800X3D thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX.

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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