AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 314.49
$ 177.00
$ 137.49 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13554 points
57% significantly better overall score
8583 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13457 points
15% slightly better gaming score
11637 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13583 points
78% significantly better multitasking score
7604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13587 points
84% significantly better heavy workload score
7365 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12798 points
82% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6996 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

412.82 points
98% significantly higher Blender score
208.44 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

29628 points
91% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
15510 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17426 points
38% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
12562 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2844 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
2799 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17750 points
37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
12876 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2946 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2889 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
4.70 GHz
0.02% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed
5.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

170 W
105 W
61% 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
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

36th of 1,089
121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Ryzen 9 7900X vs Ryzen 5 7600X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X is faster than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600X 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 7600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7600X outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 7900X 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 9 7900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7600X. The Ryzen 9 7900X also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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