AMD Ryzen 5 7600X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 5 6 core CPU vs AMD 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Price

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$ 177.00

$ 490.80 significantly less expensive

$ 667.80

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8583 points

16302 points

89% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

11637 points

14590 points

25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7604 points

16961 points

123% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

7365 points

17329 points

135% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6996 points

17230 points

146% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

208.44 points

643.21 points

208% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12876 points

22134 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2889 points

3395 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

166% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.70 GHz

9% slightly higher clock speed

4.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.3 GHz

5.7 GHz

7% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

61% significantly lower TDP

170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

1280 KiB

233% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

16 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

128 MiB

300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

121st of 1,089

14th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 7600X vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D is faster than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7600X that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7600X. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.