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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X. Specifications, performance, tests

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Released
2024-08-08
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
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2020-11-05
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AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

What's the best choice AMD Ryzen 7 9700X or AMD Ryzen 7 5800X? Which processor is faster?

Compare the available specifications of these models.

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X has a base frequency of 3.8 GHz. 8 / 16 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 65 W. Released in 2024-08-08.

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X has a base frequency of 3.8 GHz. 8 / 16 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 105 W. Released in 2020-11-05.

Differences

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
Report a bug
  • Higher turbo clock speed

    Around 17% higher specified turbo frequency

    5.5 GHz left arrow 4.7 GHz
  • Lower stated TDP / base power

    Power limits alone do not measure performance per watt.

    65 W left arrow 105 W
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
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  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    65 left arrow place

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    58 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    70 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    41 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    65 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    12 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
    74 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    109 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    97 place
  • Monero Hashrate kH/s
    32 place
  • Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
    62 place

Specifications

Technical data
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X AMD Ryzen 7 9700X
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
CPU family and group

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

  • Family
    Ryzen left arrow Ryzen
  • Form Factor
    Desktops / Boxed Processor left arrow Desktops / Boxed Processor
  • Segment
    Desktop left arrow Desktop
  • Series
    Ryzen 9000 Series left arrow Ryzen 5000 Series
  • CPU group
    - left arrow AMD Ryzen 5000
  • Generation
    - left arrow 4
  • Predecessor
    - left arrow AMD Ryzen 7 3800X
CPU Technical specs

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

  • Base Frequency
    3.8 GHz left arrow 3.8 GHz
  • CPU Cores
    8 left arrow 8
  • CPU Threads
    16 left arrow 16
  • Max. Boost Clock
    5.5 GHz left arrow 4.7 GHz
  • Overclocking
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
    5.5 GHz left arrow 4.7 GHz
  • Core architecture
    - left arrow normal
  • Hyperthreading / SMT
    - left arrow Yes
  • Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
    - left arrow 4.4 GHz
IGPU

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

  • GPU Frequency
    2200 MHz left arrow -
  • GPU name
    AMD Radeon Graphics left arrow None
  • Graphics Cores
    2 left arrow -
Hardware codec support

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

  • AV1
    - left arrow No
  • H.264 / AVC
    - left arrow No
  • h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
    - left arrow No
  • h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
    - left arrow No
  • JPEG
    - left arrow No
  • VC-1
    - left arrow No
  • VP8
    - left arrow No
  • VP9
    - left arrow No
Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 7 5800X and AMD Ryzen 7 9700X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

  • Memory channels
    2 left arrow 2
  • Memory type
    DDR5 left arrow DDR4
  • PCIe
    PCIe 5.0 left arrow PCIe 4.0
  • ECC
    - left arrow Yes
  • Max. Memory
    - left arrow 128 GB
  • PCIe lanes
    - left arrow 20
  • PCIe version
    - left arrow 4.0
  • System Memory Specification
    - left arrow 3200
Encryption
  • AES-NI
    - left arrow Yes
Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and AMD Ryzen 7 5800X Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

  • Default TDP
    65 W left arrow 105 W
  • Maximum Operating Temperature
    95 °C left arrow 90 °C
  • TDP (PL1 / PBP, legacy combined label)
    65 W left arrow -
  • TDP (PL1, legacy label)
    - left arrow 105 W
Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 9700X and AMD Ryzen 7 5800X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

  • Architecture
    Zen 5 left arrow Vermeer (Zen 3)
  • Codename
    Granite Ridge AM5 left arrow Vermeer
  • I/O die process
    TSMC 6nm FinFET left arrow -
  • L2-Cache
    8 MB left arrow 4 MB
  • L3-Cache
    32 MB left arrow 32 MB
  • Release date
    2024-08-08 left arrow 2020-11-05
  • Socket
    AM5 left arrow AM4
  • Technology
    TSMC 4nm FinFET left arrow TSMC 7nm FinFET
  • Instruction set (ISA)
    - left arrow x86-64 (64 bit)
  • ISA extensions
    - left arrow SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
  • Virtualization
    - left arrow AMD-V, SVM

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Shared tests with results for both models: 15

Blender Cycles

Each row uses one Blender version, operating system and compute backend.

Test and settingsAMD Ryzen 7 9700X AMD Ryzen 7 5800XResult difference¹
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Linux 339.305393 samples/min Submissions: 18 236.651564 samples/min Submissions: 12 -30.3 %
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Windows 310.396961 samples/min Submissions: 51 211.424763 samples/min Submissions: 22 -31.9 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Linux 371.865671 samples/min Submissions: 32 238.790662 samples/min Submissions: 18 -35.8 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Windows 320.473967 samples/min Submissions: 79 219.538655 samples/min Submissions: 40 -31.5 %
Blender 5.1.0 / CPU / Linux 385.224955 samples/min Submissions: 15 245.934632 samples/min Submissions: 5 -36.2 %
Blender 5.1.0 / CPU / Windows 311.067135 samples/min Submissions: 35 225.384328 samples/min Submissions: 20 -27.5 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Linux 334.163366 samples/min Submissions: 36 252.417386 samples/min Submissions: 86 -24.5 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Windows 304.57062 samples/min Submissions: 403 203.851614 samples/min Submissions: 237 -33.1 %
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Linux 335.639217 samples/min Submissions: 69 241.730232 samples/min Submissions: 19 -28.0 %
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Windows 282.660046 samples/min Submissions: 115 195.366501 samples/min Submissions: 99 -30.9 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Linux 338.906013 samples/min Submissions: 19 236.257691 samples/min Submissions: 30 -30.3 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Windows 279.963397 samples/min Submissions: 158 197.377448 samples/min Submissions: 207 -29.5 %
More tests: 3
Test and settingsAMD Ryzen 7 9700X AMD Ryzen 7 5800XResult difference¹
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Linux 403.741965 samples/min Submissions: 27 243.986623 samples/min Submissions: 33 -39.6 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Windows 286.426028 samples/min Submissions: 109 194.110194 samples/min Submissions: 225 -32.2 %
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Windows 306.671773 samples/min Submissions: 5 203.822985 samples/min Submissions: 98 -33.5 %

¹ Difference of the second result relative to the first in that row. No percentage is calculated for different upscaling algorithms. This compares published results, not a universal performance index.

Individual model tests

These results have no shared test of both models with the same version and settings. They are shown separately without a percentage difference.

AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

AMD Ryzen 7 5800X

Results with primary test sources

Published measurements are separate from the archived index. Incomplete conditions and unknown run counts do not support ranking positions or calculated performance differences.

Model TestResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Cinebench 2024 / multi-core 1203 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Cinebench 2024 / single-core 136 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Cinebench R15 / multi-core 3178 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Cinebench R15 / single-core 346 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Cinebench R20 / multi-core 7956 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Cinebench R20 / single-core 870 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Cinebench R23 / multi-core 20485 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X Cinebench R23 / single-core 2211 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X RandomX / XMRig 6.22.2 / 10M / 16 threads 14490.17 H/s System RAM: 64 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Motherboard: ASRock / B850I Lightning WiFi
Duration: 690.123 s

Individual system tests

Results were obtained on the reported systems. Test versions and settings remain separate; incomplete conditions do not support calculated model performance differences.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8091.138585 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / windows
System RAM: 24 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Motherboard: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. / MPG B550 GAMING PLUS (MS-7C56)
Duration: 123.592 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 12730.096494 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / windows
System RAM: 32 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. / ROG STRIX X870E-E GAMING WIFI
Duration: 78.554 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

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