AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

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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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Price

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$ 287.24

$ 42.75 slightly less expensive

$ 329.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points

60% significantly better overall score

6994 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points

21% slightly better gaming score

8202 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points

77% significantly better multitasking score

6575 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points

83% significantly better heavy workload score

6440 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points

75% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

6750 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points

117% significantly higher Blender score

187.18 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

10106 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1922 points

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

3.4 GHz

3.58 GHz

5% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

19% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

Identical

105 W

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

100% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

96 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089

194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5950X performs better than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X3D in all gaming tests too.

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 7 5700X3D that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5950X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X.

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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.