AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HS

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 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

9228 points

1% slightly better overall score

9048 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points

10935 points

46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points

17% slightly better multitasking score

8413 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points

22% slightly better heavy workload score

8221 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10804 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7779 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points

64% significantly higher Blender score

225.40 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points

11485 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points

2444 points

41% slightly 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

4.00 GHz

14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5.2 GHz

10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

54 W

94% 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

300% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 1,089

110th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5 (FP7r2)

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 3950X vs Ryzen 9 7940HS benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3950X beats the Ryzen 9 7940HS in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7940HS has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7940HS has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7940HS. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7940HS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 3950X. 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.