AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 5 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 676.99
$ 177.00
$ 499.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14398 points
67% significantly better overall score
8583 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13255 points
13% slightly better gaming score
11637 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14804 points
94% significantly better multitasking score
7604 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14984 points
103% significantly better heavy workload score
7365 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14388 points
105% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
6996 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

537.64 points
157% significantly higher Blender score
208.44 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

36291 points
133% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
15510 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19516 points
55% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
12562 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2881 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
2799 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19647 points
52% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
12876 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2926 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2889 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
4.70 GHz
11% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz
7% slightly higher turbo speed
5.3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
105 W
14% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
166% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

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
300% significantly more L3 cache
32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

27th of 1,089
121st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
Ryzen 5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2022 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Ryzen 5 7600X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is faster than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 7600X in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7600X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has 16 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7600X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 7600X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 7600X outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 7950X3D thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 7600X. 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 7950X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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