AMD Ryzen 5 1500X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

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Price

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$ 79.99
$ 597.00 significantly less expensive
$ 676.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

3338 points
14398 points
331% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

5184 points
13255 points
155% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

2778 points
14804 points
432% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

2668 points
14984 points
461% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3720 points
14388 points
286% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

64.62 points
537.64 points
732% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

4608 points
36291 points
687% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3735 points
19516 points
422% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1114 points
2881 points
158% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

3681 points
19647 points
433% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1109 points
2926 points
163% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
16
300% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

8
32
300% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
4.20 GHz
20% slightly 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

65 W
84% significantly lower TDP
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
1024 KiB
166% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
16 MiB
700% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
128 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

513th of 1,111
25th of 1,111

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5 Desktop
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 November
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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