AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Price

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$ 399.99

$ 276.36

$ 123.63 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points

10739 points

16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points

12739 points

70% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points

10048 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

9834 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10804 points

26% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

8548 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points

39% slightly higher Blender score

266.15 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10775 points

14475 points

34% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1676 points

2771 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points

14835 points

39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points

2879 points

67% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz

3.80 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5.3 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

65 W

61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB

Identical

8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 1,089

74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Ryzen 7 7700 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 7700 beats the Ryzen 9 3950X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3950X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 7700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 3950X. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 9 3950X 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 9 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.