AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

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

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AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Price

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$ 314.49

$ 93.06 slightly less expensive

$ 407.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13554 points

6% slightly better overall score

12696 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13457 points

4% slightly better gaming score

12933 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13583 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

12616 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13587 points

7% slightly better heavy workload score

12600 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

12798 points

15% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

11128 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

412.82 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

394.92 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

29628 points

19% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

24776 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17426 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

16762 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2844 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

2797 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17750 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

16768 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2946 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2868 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz

26% slightly higher clock speed

3.70 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz

3% slightly higher turbo speed

5.4 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

Identical

768 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB

Identical

12 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

Identical

64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

36th of 1,089

45th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2023 January

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 9 7900 specs and performance

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

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 7900. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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.