Ryzen 9 7900 vs Ryzen 7 9700X benchmarks
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900 beats the Ryzen 7 9700X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 7900. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X. The Ryzen 9 7900 also has significantly more L3 cache.
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 7900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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