AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 16 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

19% slightly better overall score

14004 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14068 points

13% slightly better gaming score

12364 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17588 points

20% slightly better multitasking score

14599 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

17965 points

20% slightly better heavy workload score

14860 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

15917 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

13984 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

568.01 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

475.58 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

38248 points

10% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

34613 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

18904 points

27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

14865 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2875 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

2684 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19297 points

19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

16083 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2976 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2764 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.5 GHz

79% significantly higher clock speed

2.50 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz

5% slightly higher turbo speed

5.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

170 W

55 W

209% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

Identical

1024 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB

Identical

16 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

Identical

64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

11th of 1,089

31st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 September

2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

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 9 7945HX comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X beats the Ryzen 9 7945HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7945HX in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 7945HX. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache and 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.