AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs AMD Ryzen 7 8700F

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Price

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$ 314.49
$ 250.17
$ 64.32 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13563 points
43% significantly better overall score
9424 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13462 points
18% slightly better gaming score
11316 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13592 points
54% significantly better multitasking score
8790 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13595 points
58% significantly better heavy workload score
8596 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12798 points
62% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
7868 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

412.82 points
79% significantly higher Blender score
229.92 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17750 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
12976 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2946 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2647 points

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

4.7 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed
4.10 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed
5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

170 W
65 W
161% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache
8 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

34th of 1,102
101st of 1,102

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2024 April

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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