AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points
4% slightly better overall score
8854 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points
9545 points
27% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points
13% slightly better multitasking score
8646 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points
17% slightly better heavy workload score
8600 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10804 points
33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
8096 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points
24% slightly higher Blender score
298.75 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10775 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
9801 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1676 points
2053 points
22% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points
0.02% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
10663 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points
2128 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
33% slightly more cores
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
33% slightly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed
3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
Identical
4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
768 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
Identical
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

106th of 1,096
118th of 1,096

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

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