AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D

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

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 676.99
$ 667.80
$ 9.19 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

14240 points
16293 points
14% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13213 points
14659 points
10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

14605 points
16917 points
15% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

14773 points
17259 points
16% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

14388 points
17230 points
19% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

537.64 points
643.21 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

19647 points
22134 points
12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) 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

16
Identical
16

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
Identical
32

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

2
Identical
2

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

26th of 1,118
14th of 1,118

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
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. In addition, both chips have the same turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 7950X3D CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The data shows that both these CPUs have same sized L2 caches and 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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