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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Specifications, performance, tests

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2022-04-04
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
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AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

What's the best choice AMD Ryzen 7 5700X or AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D? Which processor is faster?

Compare the available specifications of these models.

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X has a base frequency of 3.4 GHz. 8 / 16 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 65 W. Released in 2022-04-04.

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a base frequency of 4.4 GHz. 12 / 24 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 120 W. Released in 2023-02-28.

Differences

AMD Ryzen 7 5700X Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
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  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    77 left arrow place
  • Lower stated TDP / base power

    Power limits alone do not measure performance per watt.

    65 W left arrow 120 W

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 7 5700X CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    83 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    87 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    61 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    82 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    20 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
    96 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    108 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    120 place
  • Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
    75 place
  • Higher clock speed

    Around 29% better clock speed

    4.4 GHz left arrow 3.4 GHz
  • More number of cores

    4 more cores

    12 left arrow 8
  • Higher turbo clock speed

    Around 22 % higher specified turbo frequency

    5.6 GHz left arrow 4.6 GHz

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
    536 place

Specifications

Technical data
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X AMD Ryzen 7 5700X
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D
CPU family and group

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

  • CPU group
    AMD Ryzen 5000 left arrow AMD Ryzen 7000
  • Family
    Ryzen left arrow Ryzen
  • Form Factor
    Desktops / Boxed Processor left arrow Desktops / Boxed Processor
  • Generation
    4 left arrow 6
  • Predecessor
    AMD Ryzen 7 3700X left arrow -
  • Segment
    Desktop / Server left arrow Desktop
  • Series
    Ryzen 5000 Series left arrow Ryzen 7000 Series
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
    3.4 GHz left arrow 4.4 GHz
  • Core architecture
    normal left arrow normal
  • Core Configuration
    8x left arrow 12x
  • CPU Cores
    8 left arrow 12
  • CPU Threads
    16 left arrow 24
  • Hyperthreading / SMT
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Max. Boost Clock
    4.6 GHz left arrow 5.6 GHz
  • Overclocking
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
    4.6 GHz left arrow 5.6 GHz
  • Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
    4.2 GHz left arrow -
  • 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
    No left arrow No
  • H.264 / AVC
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • JPEG
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VC-1
    No left arrow Decode
  • VP8
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
  • VP9
    No left arrow Decode / Encode
Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D and AMD Ryzen 7 5700X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

  • ECC
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Max. Memory
    128 GB left arrow 128 GB
  • Memory Bandwidth
    51.2 GB/s left arrow 83.2 GB/s
  • Memory channels
    2 left arrow 2
  • Memory type
    DDR4 left arrow DDR5
  • PCIe
    PCIe 4.0 left arrow PCIe 5.0
  • System Memory Specification
    3200 left arrow -
Encryption
  • AES-NI
    Yes left arrow Yes
Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 5700X and AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 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 120 W
  • Maximum Operating Temperature
    90 °C left arrow 89 °C
  • TDP (PL1, legacy label)
    65 W left arrow 170 W
  • TDP (PL2)
    - left arrow 230 W
Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 5700X and AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

  • Architecture
    Vermeer (Zen 3) left arrow Raphael (Zen 4)
  • Codename
    Vermeer left arrow Raphael AM5
  • Documents
    Technical data sheet left arrow -
  • Instruction set (ISA)
    x86-64 (64 bit) left arrow x86-64 (64 bit)
  • ISA extensions
    SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 left arrow SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
  • L1-Cache
    0.5 MB left arrow -
  • L2-Cache
    4 MB left arrow 12 MB
  • L3-Cache
    32 MB left arrow 128 MB
  • Manufacturer product ID (tray)
    100-000000926 left arrow -
  • Operating systems
    Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit left arrow Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
  • Release date
    2022-04-04 left arrow 2023-02-28
  • Socket
    AM4 left arrow AM5
  • Technology
    TSMC 7nm FinFET left arrow TSMC 5nm FinFET
  • Thermal Solution (PIB)
    Not Included left arrow -
  • Virtualization
    AMD-V, SVM left arrow AMD-V, SVM
  • Chip design
    - left arrow Chiplet

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Shared tests with results for both models: 10

Blender Cycles

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

Test and settingsAMD Ryzen 7 5700X AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3DResult difference¹
Blender 5.2.0 / CPU / Windows 204.81129 samples/min Submissions: 58 426.341096 samples/min Submissions: 7 +108.2 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Linux 246.522914 samples/min Submissions: 206 480.352919 samples/min Submissions: 7 +94.9 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Windows 190.280932 samples/min Submissions: 218 395.565804 samples/min Submissions: 24 +107.9 %
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Windows 193.758117 samples/min Submissions: 213 383.592003 samples/min Submissions: 21 +98.0 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Linux 220.283968 samples/min Submissions: 161 472.761018 samples/min Submissions: 6 +114.6 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Windows 181.770615 samples/min Submissions: 186 380.56783 samples/min Submissions: 43 +109.4 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Linux 223.581698 samples/min Submissions: 68 478.451628 samples/min Submissions: 5 +114.0 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Windows 181.411354 samples/min Submissions: 159 388.704712 samples/min Submissions: 88 +114.3 %
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Windows 194.838614 samples/min Submissions: 124 384.317866 samples/min Submissions: 32 +97.2 %
Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Windows 193.257281 samples/min Submissions: 205 397.901848 samples/min Submissions: 44 +105.9 %

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 5700X

AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

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 / linux

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 7 5700X 7693.313741 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / linux
System RAM: 16 GB
OS: Linux x86_64
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. / B550M DS3H AC
Duration: 129.983 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

RandomX / XMRig 6.24.0 / 1M / 24 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D 16179.397156 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.24.0 / 1M / 24 threads / windows
System RAM: 32 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Duration: 61.807 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

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