AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 676.99
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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14398 points
7% slightly better overall score
13385 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13255 points
0.39% slightly better gaming score
13203 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14804 points
10% slightly better multitasking score
13450 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14984 points
11% slightly better heavy workload score
13474 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

537.64 points
34% slightly higher Blender score
398.41 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19516 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
17603 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2881 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
2784 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19647 points
11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
17560 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2926 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
2866 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
33% slightly more cores
12

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
33% slightly more threads
24

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.20 GHz
4.40 GHz
4% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz
1% slightly higher turbo speed
5.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
Identical
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB
33% slightly more L1 cache
768 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
33% slightly more L2 cache
12 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

128 MiB
Identical
128 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

27th of 1,089
38th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5

Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Ryzen 9 7900X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D is faster than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has 16 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 7900X3D. However, both these chips have the same amount of 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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