AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Price

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$ 314.49

$ 301.56

$ 12.93 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13554 points

21% slightly better overall score

11120 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13457 points

13778 points

2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13583 points

32% slightly better multitasking score

10239 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13587 points

35% slightly better heavy workload score

9995 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12798 points

31% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

9722 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

412.82 points

36% slightly higher Blender score

302.05 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17750 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

16965 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2946 points

3349 points

13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz

23% slightly higher clock speed

3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz

1% slightly higher turbo speed

5.5 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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

20% slightly more L1 cache

640 KiB

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

100% significantly more L3 cache

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

36th of 1,089

67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes

Ryzen 9 7900X vs Ryzen 7 9700X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7900X performs better than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X 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 7 9700X. 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.