AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 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

$ 399.99
$ 301.56
$ 98.43 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points
11120 points
20% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points
13778 points
84% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points
10239 points
4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points
0.89% slightly better heavy workload score
9995 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10804 points
11% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
9722 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points
23% slightly higher Blender score
302.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points
16965 points
59% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points
3349 points
94% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
3.8 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.5 GHz
17% 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

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
60% significantly more L1 cache
640 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
67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
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 9 3950X vs Ryzen 7 9700X specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 9700X performs better than the Ryzen 9 3950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3950X 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 9700X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 3950X. Also, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. 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 9 3950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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