AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 16 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

14398 points
0.71% slightly better overall score
14296 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13255 points
6% slightly better gaming score
12504 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14804 points
14928 points
0.84% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14984 points
15169 points
1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14388 points
7% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
13404 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

537.64 points
15% slightly higher Blender score
463.74 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
Identical
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.20 GHz
74% significantly higher clock speed
2.40 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz
9% slightly higher turbo speed
5.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W
55 W
118% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

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

128 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

27th of 1,089
28th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9
Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February
2024 January

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 9 7940HX specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D beats the Ryzen 9 7940HX in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7940HX in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7940HX. Also, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 7940HX outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 7950X3D thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 7950X3D 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 7950X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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