AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 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

$ 447.36
$ 301.56
$ 145.80 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16669 points
49% significantly better overall score
11120 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14068 points
2% slightly better gaming score
13778 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17588 points
71% significantly better multitasking score
10239 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

17965 points
79% significantly better heavy workload score
9995 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

15917 points
63% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
9722 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

568.01 points
88% significantly higher Blender score
302.05 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19297 points
13% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
16965 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2976 points
3349 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.5 GHz
18% slightly higher clock speed
3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz
3% slightly higher turbo speed
5.5 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

170 W
65 W
161% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
60% significantly more L1 cache
640 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

11th of 1,089
67th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September
2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Yes
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Ryzen 9 7950X vs Ryzen 7 9700X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7950X is faster than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 9700X 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 Ryzen 7 9700X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X has 16 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 9700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 9700X. The Ryzen 9 7950X 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 7950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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