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Intel Core i7-9700F vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Last updated: 2026-07-02

Table of Contents

Summary
Benchmarks
Specifications
User Reviews
Popular Comparisons

Summary

Benchmarks

Performance Overview
Average performance across multiple benchmarks

Single-core performance

Rank 2 - 57 %

Intel Core i7-9700F

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Multi-core performance

Rank 2 - 32 %

Intel Core i7-9700F

Rank 1 - 100 %

AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Cinebench 2024 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

68 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

116 pts

Cinebench 2024 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

467 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

1,632 pts

Cinebench R23 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

1,181 pts

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

1,964 pts

Cinebench R23 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

8,540 pts

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

28,905 pts

Geekbench 6 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

1,570

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

2,798

Geekbench 6 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

7,202

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

16,832

Cinebench R20 Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

465 cb

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

764 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Single-Core
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

1,218

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

2,206

Cinebench R20 Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

3,644 cb

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

11,088 cb

Geekbench 5, 64bit Multi-Core
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

6,714

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

21,140

Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
Single-core performance

8C / 8T · 4.70 GHz

209 cb

12C / 24T · 5.40 GHz

314 cb

Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
Multi-core performance

8C / 8T · 3.80 GHz

1,491 cb

12C / 24T · 4.70 GHz

4,796 cb

More benchmarks

Cinebench 2026 (ST)
218 entries

Cinebench 2026 (MC)
219 entries

Cinebench 2024 (SC)
427 entries

Cinebench 2024 (MC)
422 entries

Cinebench R23 (SC)
690 entries

Cinebench R23 (MC)
665 entries

Geekbench 6 (SC)
1,989 entries

Geekbench 6 (MC)
1,927 entries

Cinebench R20 (SC)
666 entries

Geekbench 5 (SC)
2,512 entries

Cinebench R20 (MC)
615 entries

Geekbench 5 (MC)
2,483 entries

FP32 SP (iGPU)
2,219 entries

3DMark Timespy (iGPU)
534 entries

PassMark CPU-Mark
2,504 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (SC)
250 entries

CPU-Z Benchmark 17 (MC)
751 entries

Monero Hashrate
94 entries

V-Ray CPU-Render
251 entries

Cinebench R15 (SC)
1,113 entries

Cinebench R15 (MC)
1,110 entries

CPU performance per watt (efficiency)
140 entries

Specifications

At a glance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
Family	Intel Core i7 (300)	AMD Ryzen 9 (43)
CPU group	Intel Core i 9000 (34)	AMD Ryzen 7000 (18)
Architecture	Coffee Lake S Refresh	Raphael (Zen 4)
Technology	14 nm	5 nm
Segment	Desktop	Desktop
Socket	LGA 1151-2	AM5 (LGA 1718)
Predecessor		AMD Ryzen 9 5900
Successor	Intel Core i7-10700F

CPU Cores and Base Frequency

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
CPU Cores / Threads	8 / 8	12 / 24
Hyperthreading / SMT	✗	✓
Core architecture	normal	normal
Cores:	8x	12x Zen 4
Frequency:	3.00 GHz	3.70 GHz
Turbo (1 Core):	4.70 GHz	5.40 GHz
Turbo (All Cores):	3.80 GHz	4.70 GHz
L2-Cache		12.00 MB
L3-Cache	12.00 MB	64.00 MB
Overclocking	✗	✓

Integrated graphics (iGPU)

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
GPU name	no iGPU	AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)
GPU frequency		0.40 - 2.20 GHz
CUs / Shader	/	2 / 128
Raytracing	✗	✗
Max. displays		3
Max. GPU Memory		8 GB
Technology		5 nm
Release date		Q3/2022

NPU AI performance

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
AI hardware
AI specifications
NPU + CPU + iGPU

Memory & PCIe

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
Memory	DDR4-2666 (42.7 GB/s)	DDR5-5200 (83.2 GB/s)
Max. Memory	128 GB	128 GB
Memory channels	2	2
ECC	No	Yes
PCIe	3.0 x 16	5.0 x 24
PCIe Bandwidth	15.8 GB/s	94.5 GB/s

Thermal Management

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
TDP	65 W	65 W
TDP (PL2)		88 W
TDP up		170 W
TDP down
T. junction max.	100 °C	95 °C

Technical details

Wischen	Intel Core i7-9700F	AMD Ryzen 9 7900
Chip design	Monolithic	Chiplet
AES-NI	✓	✓
Operating systems	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux	Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux
Instruction set	x86-64 (64 bit)	x86-64 (64 bit)
ISA extensions	SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2	SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
Release date	Q2/2019	Q1/2023
Release price	520 $	429 $
Documents	Technical data sheet	Technical data sheet

User Reviews

Your rating

Here you can rate one or both of the processors. The average rating of Intel Core i7-9700F is 4.4 stars (18 ratings), while AMD Ryzen 9 7900 has received 3.1 stars (329 ratings).

Click on the stars to rate one or both processors.

Intel Core i7-9700F
8C / 8T · 3.00 - 4.70 GHz

★★★★★

AMD Ryzen 9 7900
12C / 24T · 3.70 - 5.40 GHz

★★★★★