AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 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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Price

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$ 799.99
$ 301.56
$ 498.43 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13385 points
20% slightly better overall score
11120 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13203 points
13778 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13450 points
31% slightly better multitasking score
10239 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13474 points
34% slightly better heavy workload score
9995 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

398.41 points
31% slightly higher Blender score
302.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17560 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
16965 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2866 points
3349 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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
15% 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

120 W
65 W
84% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

128 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

38th of 1,089
67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs Ryzen 7 9700X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D beats the Ryzen 7 9700X in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 7900X3D thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 9700X. 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 7900X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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