AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Price

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$ 447.36

$ 220.44 significantly less expensive

$ 667.80

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

16669 points

2% slightly better overall score

16302 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

14068 points

14590 points

3% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17588 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

16961 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

17965 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

17329 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

15917 points

17230 points

8% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

568.01 points

643.21 points

13% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19297 points

22134 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2976 points

3395 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

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

4% slightly higher clock speed

4.3 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

Identical

170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

1280 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

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

14th 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

2025 March

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 9950X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D performs better than the Ryzen 9 7950X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7950X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X3D. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. Both these chips have an identical TDP (Thermal Design Power). This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches. The Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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.