AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 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

$ 399.61
$ 277.38 significantly less expensive
$ 676.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7335 points
14398 points
96% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8938 points
13255 points
48% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6797 points
14804 points
117% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6646 points
14984 points
125% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

7297 points
14388 points
97% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

209.61 points
537.64 points
156% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

14317 points
36291 points
153% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10897 points
19516 points
79% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2052 points
2881 points
40% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11047 points
19647 points
77% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2117 points
2926 points
38% 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

3.40 GHz
4.20 GHz
23% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
5.7 GHz
26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
14% slightly lower TDP
120 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
16 MiB
300% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

96 MiB
128 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

172nd of 1,089
27th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

No
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Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Ryzen 9 7950X3D comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800X3D in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D also has slightly 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 5800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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