AMD Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen PRO 6000 Series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7000 Series 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

1% slightly better overall score

7004 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

9019 points

10197 points

13% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6520 points

9% slightly better multitasking score

5978 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6356 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

5757 points

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Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

172.91 points

192.43 points

11% slightly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.30 GHz

4.10 GHz

24% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.9 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.7 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

45 W

44% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

Identical

384 KiB

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

192nd of 1,107

202nd of 1,107

Family

The product line

Ryzen PRO 6000 Series

Ryzen 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 April

2024 September

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 7600X3D benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H performs better than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 7600X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 5 7600X3D CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. 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 5 7600X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 PRO 6950H. The Ryzen 5 7600X3D also has significantly more 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 PRO 6950H has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.