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AMD Ryzen 5 7500F vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X. Specifications, performance, tests

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2023-07-22
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

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AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
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2022-09-27
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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

What's the best choice AMD Ryzen 5 7500F or AMD Ryzen 9 7900X? Which processor is faster?

Compare the available specifications of these models.

AMD Ryzen 5 7500F has a base frequency of 3.7 GHz. 6 / 12 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 65 W. Released in 2023-07-22.

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X has a base frequency of 4.7 GHz. 12 / 24 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 170 W. Released in 2022-09-27.

Differences

AMD Ryzen 5 7500F Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
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  • Lower stated TDP / base power

    Power limits alone do not measure performance per watt.

    65 W left arrow 170 W
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Reasons to consider
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  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    21 left arrow place
  • Higher clock speed

    Around 27% better clock speed

    4.7 GHz left arrow 3.7 GHz
  • More number of cores

    6 more cores

    12 left arrow 6
  • Higher turbo clock speed

    Around 12 % higher specified turbo frequency

    5.6 GHz left arrow 5 GHz

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 9 7900X CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    13 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    23 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    13 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    18 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    2 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
    10 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    3 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    23 place
  • iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
    536 place
  • Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
    11 place

Specifications

Technical data
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X AMD Ryzen 9 7900X
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 7000 Series left arrow Ryzen 7000 Series
  • CPU group
    - left arrow AMD Ryzen 7000
  • Generation
    - left arrow 6
  • Predecessor
    - left arrow AMD Ryzen 9 5900X
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
    3.7 GHz left arrow 4.7 GHz
  • CPU Cores
    6 left arrow 12
  • CPU Threads
    12 left arrow 24
  • Max. Boost Clock
    5 GHz left arrow 5.6 GHz
  • Overclocking
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Core architecture
    - left arrow normal
  • Core Configuration
    - left arrow 12x
  • Hyperthreading / SMT
    - left arrow Yes
  • Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
    - left arrow 5.6 GHz
  • Turbo Frequency (12 Cores)
    - left arrow 5.4 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 name
    None left arrow AMD Radeon Graphics
  • DirectX Version
    - left arrow 12
  • Execution units
    - left arrow 2
  • Generation
    - left arrow 9
  • GPU Frequency
    - left arrow 2200 MHz
  • GPU Turbo
    - left arrow 2200 MHz
  • Graphics Cores
    - left arrow 2
  • Max. displays
    - left arrow 3
  • Max. GPU Memory
    - left arrow 8 GB
  • Release date
    - left arrow Q3/2022
  • Shader
    - left arrow 128
  • Technology
    - left arrow 5 nm
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 Decode / Encode
  • h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
    - left arrow Decode / Encode
  • h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
    - left arrow Decode / Encode
  • JPEG
    - left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VC-1
    - left arrow Decode
  • VP8
    - left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VP9
    - left arrow Decode / Encode
Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7900X and AMD Ryzen 5 7500F. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

  • Memory channels
    2 left arrow 2
  • Memory type
    DDR5 left arrow DDR5
  • PCIe
    PCIe 5.0 left arrow 5.0 x 24
  • ECC
    - left arrow Yes
  • Max. Memory
    - left arrow 128 GB
  • Memory Bandwidth
    - left arrow 83.2 GB/s
Encryption
  • AES-NI
    - left arrow Yes
Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 7500F and AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 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 170 W
  • Maximum Operating Temperature
    95 °C left arrow 95 °C
  • TDP (PL1, legacy label)
    - left arrow 170 W
  • TDP (PL2)
    - left arrow 230 W
Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 7500F and AMD Ryzen 9 7900X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

  • Codename
    Raphael AM5 left arrow Raphael AM5
  • L2-Cache
    6 MB left arrow 12 MB
  • L3-Cache
    32 MB left arrow 64 MB
  • Release date
    2023-07-22 left arrow 2022-09-27
  • Socket
    AM5 left arrow AM5
  • Technology
    TSMC 5nm FinFET left arrow TSMC 5nm FinFET
  • Architecture
    - left arrow Raphael (Zen 4)
  • Chip design
    - left arrow Chiplet
  • Documents
    - left arrow Technical data sheet
  • Instruction set (ISA)
    - left arrow x86-64 (64 bit)
  • ISA extensions
    - left arrow SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
  • Operating systems
    - left arrow Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
  • Part Number
    - left arrow 100-100000589WOF
  • Release price
    - left arrow 549 $
  • Virtualization
    - left arrow AMD-V, SVM

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Shared tests with results for both models: 12

Blender Cycles

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

Test and settingsAMD Ryzen 5 7500F AMD Ryzen 9 7900XResult difference¹
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Windows 202.875257 samples/min Submissions: 20 444.104583 samples/min Submissions: 23 +118.9 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Windows 211.016448 samples/min Submissions: 32 402.994833 samples/min Submissions: 143 +91.0 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Linux 226.467652 samples/min Submissions: 9 481.361918 samples/min Submissions: 34 +112.6 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Windows 193.086364 samples/min Submissions: 85 406.708812 samples/min Submissions: 127 +110.6 %
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Windows 191.747448 samples/min Submissions: 63 390.634852 samples/min Submissions: 206 +103.7 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Linux 241.602998 samples/min Submissions: 6 482.755636 samples/min Submissions: 9 +99.8 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Windows 188.964731 samples/min Submissions: 55 391.064336 samples/min Submissions: 145 +107.0 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Linux 238.274443 samples/min Submissions: 6 493.686905 samples/min Submissions: 23 +107.2 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Windows 191.434044 samples/min Submissions: 85 396.197227 samples/min Submissions: 309 +107.0 %
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Linux 250.362812 samples/min Submissions: 9 510.14922 samples/min Submissions: 16 +103.8 %
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Windows 208.496404 samples/min Submissions: 66 400.971593 samples/min Submissions: 148 +92.3 %
Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Windows 198.856133 samples/min Submissions: 40 412.755161 samples/min Submissions: 318 +107.6 %

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 5 7500F

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X

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 9 7900X Cinebench R15 / multi-core 4856 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 3090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Cinebench R15 / single-core 324 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 3090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Cinebench R20 / multi-core 11563 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 3090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Cinebench R20 / single-core 786 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 3090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Cinebench R23 / multi-core 29480 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 3090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X Cinebench R23 / single-core 2039 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 3090
System RAM: 32 GB

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 / 12 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F 9236.168837 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 12 threads / windows
System RAM: 32 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. / ROG STRIX B650E-F GAMING WIFI
Duration: 108.27 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 24 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X 16626.209557 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 24 threads / windows
System RAM: 32 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. / TUF GAMING B650-PLUS WIFI
Duration: 60.146 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

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