AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 5900XT

Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 287.24

$ 33.84 slightly less expensive

$ 321.08

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points

10% slightly better overall score

10175 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points

13% slightly better gaming score

8712 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points

8% slightly better multitasking score

10760 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points

6% slightly better heavy workload score

11072 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points

6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

11130 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points

10% slightly higher Blender score

367.23 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

3.30 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.8 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

Identical

1024 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

Identical

64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089

83rd 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 July

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 9 5900XT specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5900XT beats the Ryzen 9 5950X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5950X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5900XT. Also, the Ryzen 9 5950X 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. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.