AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT 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

$ 230.00
$ 169.99 significantly less expensive
$ 399.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7216 points
9228 points
27% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8527 points
14% slightly better gaming score
7460 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points
9844 points
45% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6644 points
10084 points
51% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6357 points
10804 points
69% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.87 points
371.88 points
100% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8580 points
10775 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1738 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1676 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8527 points
10665 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1771 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1722 points

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

3.9 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
Identical
4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
Identical
105 W

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

176th 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

2020 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

Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Ryzen 9 3950X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3950X is faster than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800XT in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 3800XT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 3950X. In addition, both chips have the same 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 3950X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. 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 3800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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