AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX3D

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

11621 points

3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9928 points

10251 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

11640 points

12118 points

4% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

11833 points

12323 points

4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11823 points

12988 points

9% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

406.94 points

463.95 points

14% slightly higher Blender score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

27062 points

32782 points

21% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

12029 points

16655 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) 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

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.4 GHz

47% significantly higher clock speed

2.30 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

192 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

66th of 1,089

56th 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 July

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 9 7945HX3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D performs better than the Ryzen 9 5950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 5950X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 7945HX3D has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 5950X. The Ryzen 9 7945HX3D also has significantly more 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.