AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

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

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

11194 points
14004 points
25% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points
12364 points
24% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points
14599 points
25% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points
14860 points
25% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points
13984 points
18% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points
475.58 points
16% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27062 points
34613 points
27% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12256 points
14865 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2148 points
2684 points
24% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points
16083 points
33% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2207 points
2764 points
25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
Identical
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz
35% slightly higher clock speed
2.50 GHz

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
55 W
90% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
Identical
1024 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
16 MiB
100% 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
31st 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
Yes

Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 9 7945HX benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7945HX 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 7945HX. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7945HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7945HX 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. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 7945HX has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 5950X. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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.

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