AMD Ryzen 9 7900 vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 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

$ 407.55
$ 260.25 significantly less expensive
$ 667.80

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

13078 points
16302 points
24% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13206 points
14590 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

13028 points
16961 points
30% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

13011 points
17329 points
33% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

11128 points
17230 points
54% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

394.92 points
643.21 points
62% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

16768 points
22134 points
32% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2868 points
3395 points
18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
16
33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
32
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.70 GHz
4.3 GHz
16% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.4 GHz
5.7 GHz
5% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
161% significantly lower TDP
170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
1280 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

12 MiB
16 MiB
33% slightly 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

40th of 1,089
14th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 January
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 9 7900 vs Ryzen 9 9950X3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D performs better than the Ryzen 9 7900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7900 in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7900. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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 9950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7900. Also, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 7900 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has slightly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D also has significantly more 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 7900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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