AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

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 7800X3D

Price

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$ 287.24

$ 98.90 significantly less expensive

$ 386.14

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points

11% slightly better overall score

10011 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points

11884 points

19% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points

24% slightly better multitasking score

9348 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points

29% slightly better heavy workload score

9142 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points

47% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

8010 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points

54% significantly higher Blender score

263.24 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27062 points

49% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

18086 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points

15051 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points

2723 points

23% 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

4.20 GHz

23% 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

14% slightly lower TDP

120 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

96 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089

88th 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 April

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 7800X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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 7800X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 7800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5950X. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 7 7800X3D 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.