AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

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

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AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

Price

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$ 676.99

$ 667.80

$ 9.19 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14398 points

16302 points

13% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13255 points

14590 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14804 points

16961 points

14% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14984 points

17329 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14388 points

17230 points

19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

537.64 points

643.21 points

19% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19647 points

22134 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

2926 points

3395 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.20 GHz

4.3 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.7 GHz

Identical

5.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

120 W

41% slightly lower TDP

170 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

1024 KiB

1280 KiB

25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB

Identical

16 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

14th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 February

2025 March

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 9950X3D benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D 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.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9950X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 7950X3D. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 7950X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.