AMD Ryzen 9 3950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 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
$ 132.19 significantly less expensive
$ 532.18

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

9228 points
17229 points
86% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7460 points
15130 points
102% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

9844 points
17969 points
82% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10084 points
18272 points
81% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10804 points
16731 points
54% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

371.88 points
605.81 points
62% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10665 points
21438 points
101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1722 points
3385 points
96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
Identical
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.5 GHz
4.3 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.7 GHz
21% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
61% significantly lower TDP
170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
1280 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
16 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
Identical
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

105th of 1,089
7th 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 9 9950X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9950X is faster than the Ryzen 9 3950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3950X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 3950X. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3950X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9950X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 3950X. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.

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