AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Mobile 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 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

6264 points

6502 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7696 points

7833 points

1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5820 points

6045 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5710 points

5906 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.52 points

184.03 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7587 points

7993 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1845 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1652 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.3 GHz

3.6 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

65 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

239th of 1,089

220th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Mobile

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 January

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-3200

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 9 5900HX vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900HX. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 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 5900HX has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.