AMD Ryzen 9 5900X vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D
We compared two desktop CPUs: the 3.7 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 5900X with 12-cores against the 4.2 GHz Ryzen 7 7800X3D with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.
Review
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating
The "iGPU" and "Power Efficiency" have a minor impact on the NanoReview Score when comparing desktop CPUs.
Key Differences
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
- Has 4 more physical cores
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
- Newer - released 2-years and 3-months later
- Has 32768 KB larger L3 cache size
- More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7 nanometers
- Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
- 21% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2730 vs 2263 points
- Includes an integrated GPU Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)
- 4% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5 GHz vs 4.8 GHz)
Promotion
Test in Benchmarks
Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasksCinebench R23
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
GeekBench v6
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
| File compression | 1220 MB/sec | 1770 MB/sec |
| Clang compilation | 122.4 Klines/sec | 114.7 Klines/sec |
| HTML 5 Browser | 239.3 pages/sec | 338.9 pages/sec |
| PDF Renderer | 384.6 Mpixels/sec | 422.4 Mpixels/sec |
| Text processing | 226.6 pages/sec | 257.2 pages/sec |
| Background blur | 46.4 images/sec | 66.2 images/sec |
| Photo processing | 91.2 images/sec | 113.7 images/sec |
| Ray tracing | 30.4 Mpixels/sec | 24.7 Mpixels/sec |
PassMark
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
| Integer math | 143.9 GOps/sec | 104.4 GOps/sec |
| Floating point math | 77.7 GOps/sec | 62.2 GOps/sec |
| Find prime numbers | 252M Primes/sec | 331M Primes/sec |
| Random string sorting | 52.7M Strings/sec | 47.5M Strings/sec |
| Data encryption | 31.4 GBytes/sec | 22.5 GBytes/sec |
| Data compression | 502.9 MBytes/sec | 387.1 MBytes/sec |
| Physics | 2019 Frames/sec | 3573 Frames/sec |
| Extended instructions | 33B Matrices/sec | 29.3B Matrices/sec |
Value for money
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Specifications
Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 9 5900X and Ryzen 7 7800X3DGeneral
| Vendor | AMD | AMD |
| Released | October 8, 2020 | January 4, 2023 |
| Type | Desktop | Desktop |
| instruction set | x86-64 | x86-64 |
| Codename | Zen 3 (Vermeer) | Zen 4 (Raphael) |
| Integrated GPU | No | Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000) |
CPU
| P-Cores | 12 | 8 |
| P-Threads | 24 | 16 |
| Base Frequency (P) | 3.7 GHz | 4.2 GHz |
| Turbo Boost Frequency (P) | 4.8 GHz | 5 GHz |
| Total Cores | 12 | 8 |
| Total Threads | 24 | 16 |
| Bus Frequency | 100 MHz | 100 MHz |
| Multiplier | 37x | 42x |
| L1 Cache | 64K (per core) | 64K (per core) |
| L2 Cache | 512K (per core) | 1MB (per core) |
| L3 Cache | 64MB (shared) | 96MB (shared) |
| Unlocked Multiplier | Yes | - |
Package
| Transistors | 4.15 billions | 13.1 billions |
| Fabrication process | 7 nm | 5 nm |
| TDP (PL1) | 105 W | 120 W |
| Max. Boost TDP (PL2) | - | 162 W |
| Socket | AM4 | AM5 |
| Peak temperature | 90°C | 89°C |
iGPU
| Integrated Graphics | - | Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000) |
| GPU Base Clock | - | 1500 MHz |
| GPU Boost Clock | - | 2200 MHz |
| Shading Units | - | 448 |
| TMUs | - | 8 |
| ROPs | - | 4 |
| Execution Units | - | 2 |
| TGP | - | 15 W |
iGPU FLOPS
Memory Support
| Memory types | - DDR4-3200 | - DDR5-5200 |
| Memory Size | 128 GB | 128 GB |
| Max. Memory Channels | 2 | 2 |
| Max. Memory Bandwidth | 47.68 GB/s | - |
| ECC Support | Yes | Yes |
Misc
| Official site | AMD Ryzen 9 5900X official page | AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D official page |
| PCI Express Version | 4.0 | 5.0 |
| PCI Express Lanes | 20 | 28 |
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