AMD Ryzen 9 7900X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Ryzen 9 7900X vs Ryzen 9 7950X benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X beats the Ryzen 9 7900X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7900X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 7900X has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). 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 7950X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900X. 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 7900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.