AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

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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AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D

Price

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$ 447.36

$ 229.63 significantly less expensive

$ 676.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16669 points

15% slightly better overall score

14398 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14068 points

6% slightly better gaming score

13255 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17588 points

18% slightly better multitasking score

14804 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

17965 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

14984 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

15917 points

10% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

14388 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

568.01 points

5% slightly higher Blender score

537.64 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

38248 points

5% slightly higher Cinebench R23 score

36291 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

18904 points

19516 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2875 points

2881 points

0.21% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19297 points

19647 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2976 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

2926 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

7% slightly higher clock speed

4.20 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz

Identical

5.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

170 W

120 W

41% slightly 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

128 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

11th of 1,089

27th 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 7950X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7950X is faster than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7950X3D in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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.