AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

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 7900X3D

Price

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$ 314.49

$ 485.50 significantly less expensive

$ 799.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13554 points

1% slightly better overall score

13385 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13457 points

1% slightly better gaming score

13203 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13583 points

0.99% slightly better multitasking score

13450 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13587 points

0.84% slightly better heavy workload score

13474 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

412.82 points

3% slightly higher Blender score

398.41 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17426 points

17603 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2844 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

2784 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17750 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

17560 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2946 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2866 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

6% slightly higher clock speed

4.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz

Identical

5.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

170 W

120 W

41% slightly 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

128 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

36th of 1,089

38th 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 February

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 7900X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900X beats the Ryzen 9 7900X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7900X3D in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 7900X3D 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.