AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 16 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

14240 points
89% significantly better overall score
7497 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13213 points
31% slightly better gaming score
10086 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14605 points
119% significantly better multitasking score
6655 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14773 points
129% significantly better heavy workload score
6443 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

537.64 points
170% significantly higher Blender score
199.09 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
166% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
166% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.20 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed
4.00 GHz

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB
33% slightly more L3 cache
96 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

26th of 1,118
176th of 1,118

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
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Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is faster than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7500X3D in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more cores with 16 cores compared to the Ryzen 5 7500X3D that has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D also has slightly 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 7950X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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