AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7530U

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13554 points
194% significantly better overall score
4604 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13457 points
113% significantly better gaming score
6298 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13583 points
232% significantly better multitasking score
4083 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13587 points
243% significantly better heavy workload score
3956 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

412.82 points
294% significantly higher Blender score
104.53 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

29628 points
216% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
9347 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17750 points
215% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
5620 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2946 points
80% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1634 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz
134% significantly higher clock speed
2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz
24% slightly higher turbo speed
4.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

170 W
15 W
1033% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache
3 MiB

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

36th of 1,089
380th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Ryzen 9 7900X vs Ryzen 5 7530U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7900X performs better than the Ryzen 5 7530U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7530U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7530U has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7530U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 5 7530U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7530U. The Ryzen 9 7900X 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 7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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