AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

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

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$ 287.24
$ 512.75 significantly less expensive
$ 799.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
13385 points
19% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
13203 points
32% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
13450 points
15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
13474 points
13% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
398.41 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points
17603 points
43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points
2784 points
29% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
17560 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
2866 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
4.40 GHz
29% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz
5.6 GHz
14% 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
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
128 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089
38th 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 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 9 7900X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 5950X beats the Ryzen 9 7900X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7900X3D in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 9 7900X3D that has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 5950X. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5950X. The Ryzen 9 7900X3D 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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