AMD Ryzen 9 7900 vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 407.55

$ 195.30

$ 212.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

12696 points

46% significantly better overall score

8673 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

12933 points

4% slightly better gaming score

12393 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

12616 points

68% significantly better multitasking score

7498 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

12600 points

73% significantly better heavy workload score

7245 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11128 points

46% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

7587 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

394.92 points

69% significantly higher Blender score

233.29 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16768 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

14957 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2868 points

3338 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.70 GHz

3.9 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz

Identical

5.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

60% significantly more L1 cache

480 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

6 MiB

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

45th of 1,089

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 7900 vs Ryzen 5 9600X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900 beats the Ryzen 5 9600X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 9600X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 9600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 7900. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 7900 has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 9600X. The Ryzen 9 7900 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 7900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.