AMD Ryzen 5 1600X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Ryzen 5 1600X vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D performs better than the Ryzen 5 1600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 1600X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 1600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 1600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 1600X. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 1600X. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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 Ryzen 5 1600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.