AMD EPYC 74F3 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9955HX

Compare AMD 9 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5669 points
11380 points
100% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7130 points
10581 points
48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5211 points
11723 points
124% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5104 points
11982 points
134% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

136.28 points
538.07 points
294% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

9
16
77% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

18
32
77% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.19 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

240 W
55 W
336% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

576 KiB
1280 KiB
122% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4.5 MiB
16 MiB
255% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
64 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

278th of 1,089
61st of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

EPYC 74F3 vs Ryzen 9 9955HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the EPYC 74F3 performs better than the Ryzen 9 9955HX. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 9955HX in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the EPYC 74F3 that has 9 cores. It also has more threads than the EPYC 74F3. Our comparison shows that the EPYC 74F3 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9955HX. The Ryzen 9 9955HX outputs less heat than EPYC 74F3 thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9955HX has significantly more L2 cache than the EPYC 74F3. The Ryzen 9 9955HX also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the EPYC 74F3 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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