AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 229.99
$ 188.99
$ 41.00 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points
7% slightly better overall score
7857 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
10525 points
24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
20% slightly better multitasking score
6994 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
23% slightly better heavy workload score
6774 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points
33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6449 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points
40% slightly higher Blender score
197.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points
12599 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points
2751 points
61% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
Identical
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089
152nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Ryzen 5 7500F specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7500F performs better than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7500F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7500F. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 3900X 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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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