AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H vs AMD Ryzen 5 7500X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD 6 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

7135 points

7478 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9019 points

10030 points

11% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6520 points

6652 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6356 points

6441 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

172.91 points

199.09 points

15% slightly higher Blender 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

3.30 GHz

4.00 GHz

21% slightly higher clock speed

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

96 MiB

499% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

194th of 1,109

175th of 1,109

Family

The product line

Ryzen PRO 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H vs Ryzen 5 7500X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D performs better than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H in all gaming tests too.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has slightly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has 8 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7500X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 5 7500X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. The Ryzen 5 7500X3D also has significantly more 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 PRO 6950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.