AMD Ryzen 7 5700 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

Compare AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 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

$ 157.50
$ 374.68 significantly less expensive
$ 532.18

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7663 points
17229 points
124% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9257 points
15130 points
63% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

7115 points
17969 points
152% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6951 points
18272 points
162% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6611 points
16731 points
153% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

187.49 points
605.81 points
223% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8779 points
21438 points
144% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1998 points
3385 points
69% 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

3.70 GHz
4.3 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.7 GHz
23% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
161% significantly lower TDP
170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
1280 KiB
150% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
16 MiB
300% 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

159th of 1,089
7th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 5000 Series
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 January
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 7 5700 vs Ryzen 9 9950X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X beats the Ryzen 7 5700 in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 5700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 5700 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9950X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 9950X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5700. The Ryzen 9 9950X 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 7 5700 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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