AMD Ryzen 7 1800X vs AMD Ryzen 9 3950X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 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

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 235.99
$ 164.00 significantly less expensive
$ 399.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

5542 points
9228 points
66% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6612 points
7460 points
12% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5172 points
9844 points
90% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5056 points
10084 points
99% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

4496 points
10804 points
140% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

141.60 points
371.88 points
162% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5675 points
10775 points
89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1118 points
1676 points
49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5693 points
10665 points
87% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1144 points
1722 points
50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
16
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
32
100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4 GHz
4.7 GHz
17% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
10% slightly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
1024 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
8 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

289th of 1,089
105th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 February
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 1800X vs Ryzen 9 3950X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3950X beats the Ryzen 7 1800X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 1800X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 1800X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 1800X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 1800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 3950X. A Ryzen 7 1800X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 3950X CPU because of its slightly 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 3950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 1800X. The Ryzen 9 3950X 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 7 1800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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