AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 16 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 9 9900X

Price

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$ 676.99

$ 369.00

$ 307.99 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14398 points

4% slightly better overall score

13788 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13255 points

14026 points

5% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14804 points

7% slightly better multitasking score

13725 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14984 points

9% slightly better heavy workload score

13727 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14388 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

13920 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

537.64 points

16% slightly higher Blender score

462.53 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19647 points

19790 points

0.73% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2926 points

3339 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.20 GHz

4.4 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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

6% slightly more L1 cache

960 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

100% significantly more L3 cache

64 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

27th of 1,089

35th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs Ryzen 9 9900X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9900X beats the Ryzen 9 7950X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 7950X3D in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has slightly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 9900X has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 9900X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 9900X. 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.