AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Price

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$ 447.36

$ 329.99

$ 117.37 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16669 points

138% significantly better overall score

6986 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14068 points

71% significantly better gaming score

8182 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17588 points

167% significantly better multitasking score

6571 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

17965 points

179% significantly better heavy workload score

6437 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

15917 points

135% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

6750 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

568.01 points

203% significantly higher Blender score

187.18 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19297 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

10106 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2976 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1922 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.5 GHz

25% slightly higher clock speed

3.58 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz

39% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

170 W

105 W

61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

100% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB

300% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

96 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

11th of 1,119

207th of 1,119

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 5000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2024 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 Ryzen 7 5700X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X beats the Ryzen 7 5700X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X3D in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5700X3D outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 7950X 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 7950X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X.

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 7950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.