AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 7700

Price

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$ 287.24

$ 276.36

$ 10.88 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points

4% slightly better overall score

10739 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points

12739 points

28% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points

15% slightly better multitasking score

10048 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

9834 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points

38% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

8548 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points

52% significantly higher Blender score

266.15 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27062 points

44% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

18760 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points

14475 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points

2771 points

29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points

14835 points

23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points

2879 points

30% 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

3.4 GHz

3.80 GHz

11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

5.3 GHz

8% 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

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

100% significantly more L3 cache

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089

74th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May

2023 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 7 7700 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5950X is faster than the Ryzen 7 7700. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 7700 has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7700 has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5950X. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 5950X also has significantly more 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 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.