AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

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

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Price

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$ 799.99
$ 329.99
$ 470.00 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13385 points
91% significantly better overall score
6994 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13203 points
60% significantly better gaming score
8202 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13450 points
104% significantly better multitasking score
6575 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13474 points
109% significantly better heavy workload score
6440 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

398.41 points
112% significantly higher Blender score
187.18 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17560 points
73% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
10106 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2866 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1922 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

4.40 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed
3.58 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.6 GHz
36% slightly higher turbo speed
4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
105 W
14% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
96 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

38th of 1,089
194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR4

Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X3D in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. The Ryzen 9 7900X3D also has slightly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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