AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7335 points

2% slightly better overall score

7135 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8938 points

9019 points

0.91% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6797 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

6520 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6646 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

6356 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

209.61 points

21% slightly higher Blender score

172.91 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

11047 points

15% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

9559 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2117 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1990 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.40 GHz

3% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz

4.9 GHz

8% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

45 W

133% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

33% slightly more L1 cache

384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

Identical

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

96 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

172nd of 1,089

183rd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

Ryzen PRO 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 7 5800X3D vs Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D beats the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 5800X3D thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D 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 5800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.