AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

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

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AMD Ryzen 7 8700G

Price

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$ 269.00

$ 4.07 slightly less expensive

$ 273.07

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points

0.92% slightly better overall score

9769 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points

11596 points

16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

9145 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

8951 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points

28% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7917 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points

27% slightly higher Blender score

245.43 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points

13530 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points

2650 points

20% 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

4.2 GHz

13% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz

5.1 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

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

300% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089

95th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 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 8700G comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 8700G 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.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 8700G that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 8700G. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 8700G has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900X. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 7 8700G 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 8700G.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.