AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Price

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$ 676.99

$ 276.36

$ 400.63 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14398 points

34% slightly better overall score

10739 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13255 points

4% slightly better gaming score

12739 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14804 points

47% significantly better multitasking score

10048 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14984 points

52% significantly better heavy workload score

9834 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14388 points

68% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

8548 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

537.64 points

102% significantly higher Blender score

266.15 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

36291 points

93% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

18760 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19516 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

14475 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2881 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

2771 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19647 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

14835 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2926 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2879 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.20 GHz

10% slightly higher clock speed

3.80 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

5.3 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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB

100% 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

27th of 1,089

74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Ryzen 7 7700 comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D beats the Ryzen 7 7700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 7700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 7700. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 7700. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D also has significantly 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 7950X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.