AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 Desktop 6 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

$ 287.24
$ 188.99
$ 98.25 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
42% slightly better overall score
7857 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
10525 points
6% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
66% significantly better multitasking score
6994 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
74% significantly better heavy workload score
6774 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points
83% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6449 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
106% significantly higher Blender score
197.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
12599 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
2751 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
166% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
166% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3.70 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed

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
166% significantly more L1 cache
384 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
100% significantly more L3 cache
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089
152nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 5 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2023 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 5 7500F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Ryzen 5 7500F in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7500F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7500F that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. Also, the Ryzen 5 7500F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7500F outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5950X 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, the Ryzen 9 5950X has slightly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 5 7500F. The Ryzen 9 5950X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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