AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 12 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
$ 120.31 significantly less expensive
$ 407.55

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
13078 points
16% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
13206 points
33% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
13028 points
11% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
13011 points
9% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points
6% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
11128 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
3% slightly higher Blender score
394.92 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27062 points
9% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
24776 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points
16762 points
36% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points
2797 points
30% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
16768 points
39% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
2868 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
33% slightly more cores
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
33% slightly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
3.70 GHz
8% 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
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
768 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
12 MiB
49% significantly more L2 cache

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
40th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 9

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
Yes

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 9 7900 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Ryzen 9 7900 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 5950X has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7900. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 5950X has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7900. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7900 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 5950X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7900 has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.

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