AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 7700X

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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 287.24
$ 246.84
$ 40.40 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
11% slightly better overall score
10008 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
12170 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
25% slightly better multitasking score
9291 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
30% slightly better heavy workload score
9088 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points
31% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
9007 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
44% significantly higher Blender score
281.95 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27062 points
38% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
19509 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points
15168 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points
2857 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
15466 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
2977 points
34% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

3.4 GHz
4.50 GHz
32% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.4 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

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
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
89th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 7

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 May
2022 September

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 7 7700X comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 5950X performs better than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7700X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5950X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 7700X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 7700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7700X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. Also, the Ryzen 7 7700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. 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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