AMD Ryzen 9 9950X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 16 core CPU vs AMD 8 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

17237 points
50% significantly better overall score
11491 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

15184 points
10% slightly better gaming score
13745 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

17946 points
67% significantly better multitasking score
10729 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

18213 points
73% significantly better heavy workload score
10503 points

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Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

16
100% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

32
100% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.3 GHz
4.7 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

16 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
8 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
96 MiB
49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

7th of 1,124
63rd of 1,124

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series
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Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 August
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
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Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
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Ryzen 9 9950X vs Ryzen 7 9850X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 9950X beats the Ryzen 7 9850X3D in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 9850X3D in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9950X has significantly more cores with 16 cores whereas the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9950X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 9850X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9850X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 9950X.

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 9950X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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