AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs AMD Athlon Silver 3050U

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Athlon Mobile 2 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

16669 points
1289% significantly better overall score
1200 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14068 points
446% significantly better gaming score
2572 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17588 points
1935% significantly better multitasking score
864 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

17965 points
2061% significantly better heavy workload score
831 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

568.01 points
3673% significantly higher Blender score
15.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19297 points
1329% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
1350 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2976 points
282% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
778 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
700% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
1500% significantly more threads
2

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.5 GHz
95% significantly higher clock speed
2.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz
78% significantly higher turbo speed
3.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

170 W
15 W
1033% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
433% significantly more L1 cache
192 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
1500% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
1500% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

11th of 1,089
902nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Athlon Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2020 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
-

Ryzen 9 7950X vs Athlon Silver 3050U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 7950X performs better than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Athlon Silver 3050U in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7950X has significantly more cores than the Athlon Silver 3050U. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X has 16 cores compared to 2 cores found in the Athlon Silver 3050U. It also has more threads than the Athlon Silver 3050U. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Athlon Silver 3050U. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Athlon Silver 3050U. The Ryzen 9 7950X 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 7950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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