AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Price

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$ 269.00

$ 7.36 slightly less expensive

$ 276.36

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points

10739 points

8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points

12739 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points

10048 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points

9834 points

0.06% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points

19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

8548 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points

17% slightly higher Blender score

266.15 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

20634 points

9% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

18760 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11764 points

14475 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2141 points

2771 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points

14835 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points

2879 points

30% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz

3.80 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.3 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

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

94th of 1,089

74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Ryzen 7 7700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 7700 is faster than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 7700 has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 7700.

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 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.