AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

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

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Price

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$ 799.99
$ 369.00
$ 430.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13385 points
13788 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13203 points
14026 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13450 points
13725 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13474 points
13727 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

398.41 points
462.53 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

17560 points
19790 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2866 points
3339 points
16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
Identical
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
Identical
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.40 GHz
0.02% slightly higher clock speed
4.4 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

120 W
Identical
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
960 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
Identical
12 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

38th of 1,089
35th 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 9 9900X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 9900X performs better than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7900X3D 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 7900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 9900X. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. 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 7900X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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