AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 8945H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD 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
3% slightly better overall score
8895 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points
10846 points
45% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points
18% slightly better multitasking score
8278 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points
24% slightly better heavy workload score
8127 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points
65% significantly higher Blender score
224.72 points

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
4.00 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed

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
115th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 November
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 9 3950X vs Ryzen 9 8945H comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3950X is faster than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 8945H has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3950X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3950X has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 9 8945H. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 8945H. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 8945H has a slightly higher clock speed compared to 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.

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