AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 269.00
$ 32.56 slightly less expensive
$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points
11120 points
12% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points
13778 points
38% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points
10239 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points
9995 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points
4% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
9722 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

313.97 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
302.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points
16965 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points
3349 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
49% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.7 GHz
3.8 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5.5 GHz
14% 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
20% slightly more L1 cache
640 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
67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 9 5900X vs Ryzen 7 9700X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9700X beats the Ryzen 9 5900X in overall performance. 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 9700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5900X 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 7 9700X 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 9700X.

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.

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