Ryzen 7 3800X vs Ryzen 9 5950X comparison
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5950X is faster than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800X in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 3800X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 3800X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3800X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 3800X. The Ryzen 9 5950X also has significantly more L3 cache.
Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.
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