AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs AMD Ryzen 9 3950X

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Price

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$ 198.00
$ 201.99 significantly less expensive
$ 399.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6345 points
9228 points
45% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points
2% slightly better gaming score
7460 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points
9844 points
66% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points
10084 points
74% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6052 points
10804 points
78% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points
371.88 points
106% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8116 points
10775 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1623 points
1676 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8090 points
10665 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1674 points
1722 points
2% slightly 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

4.4 GHz
4.7 GHz
6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
1024 KiB
100% significantly 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

32 MiB
64 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

235th of 1,092
106th of 1,092

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

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