AMD EPYC 7543P vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Compare AMD EPYC 7003 Series 32 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 1895.00
$ 447.36
$ 1447.64 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3463 points
16669 points
381% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4960 points
14068 points
183% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2982 points
17588 points
489% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2866 points
17965 points
526% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

78.01 points
568.01 points
628% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

15287 points
19297 points
26% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1609 points
2976 points
84% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

32
100% significantly more cores
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

64
100% significantly more threads
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

2.8 GHz
4.5 GHz
60% significantly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.7 GHz
5.7 GHz
54% significantly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

225 W
170 W
32% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

8
300% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

2048 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache
1024 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
Identical
16 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

256 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

488th of 1,089
11th of 1,089

Family

The product line

EPYC 7003 Series
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2021 March
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

EPYC 7543P vs Ryzen 9 7950X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7950X performs better than the EPYC 7543P. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the EPYC 7543P in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the EPYC 7543P has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7950X. Indeed, the EPYC 7543P has 32 cores compared to 16 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7950X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7950X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the EPYC 7543P. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7950X outputs less heat than EPYC 7543P thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The EPYC 7543P also has significantly more L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the EPYC 7543P has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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