AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

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
$ 186.05 significantly less expensive
$ 455.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9859 points
10982 points
11% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9924 points
13108 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9836 points
10252 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

9828 points
10031 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10192 points
1% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
10082 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

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

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11794 points
18346 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2200 points
3336 points
51% 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
4.7 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.8 GHz
5.2 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
14% slightly lower TDP
120 W

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
96 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

94th of 1,089
70th 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 November

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 9800X3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D performs better than the Ryzen 9 5900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5900X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5900X has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 5900X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU because of its slightly 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 9800X3D has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5900X. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 5900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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