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AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs Ryzen 7 7800X3D

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

We compared two desktop CPUs: the 3.4 GHz AMD Ryzen 9 5950X with 16-cores against the 4.2 GHz Ryzen 7 7800X3D with 8-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Performance
  4. Specs
  5. Comments

Review

General overview and comparison of the processors
Single-Core Performance
Performance in single-threaded apps and benchmarks
Multi-Core Performance
Measure performance when all cores are involved
Power Efficiency
The efficiency score of power consumption
NanoReview Final Score
Generic CPU rating
The "iGPU" and "Power Efficiency" have a minor impact on the NanoReview Score when comparing desktop CPUs.

Key Differences

What are the key differences between 7800X3D and 5950X
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
  • Has 8 more physical cores
  • More than 6° C higher critical temperature
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
  • Newer - released 2-years and 3-months later
  • Has 32768 KB larger L3 cache size
  • More modern manufacturing process – 5 versus 7 nanometers
  • 42% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2730 vs 1926 points
  • Newer PCI Express version – 5.0
  • Includes an integrated GPU Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)
  • 2% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5 GHz vs 4.9 GHz)
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Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks
CPU:
Ryzen 9 5950X
vs
Ryzen 7 7800X3D

Cinebench R23

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
Ryzen 9 5950X +43%
25886
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
18097
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GeekBench v6

The new version of this benchmark emulates common operations often used in real-world apps
Geekbench 6 (Single-Core)
Geekbench 6 (Multi-Core)
Ryzen 9 5950X
13013
Ryzen 7 7800X3D +20%
15629
File compression 1090 MB/sec 1770 MB/sec
Clang compilation 137.4 Klines/sec 114.7 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 225.5 pages/sec 338.9 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 349.4 Mpixels/sec 422.4 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 191.7 pages/sec 257.2 pages/sec
Background blur 51.9 images/sec 66.2 images/sec
Photo processing 84.2 images/sec 113.7 images/sec
Ray tracing 37.7 Mpixels/sec 24.7 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2]

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
Ryzen 9 5950X +32%
45854
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
34740
Integer math 189.7 GOps/sec 104.4 GOps/sec
Floating point math 100.2 GOps/sec 62.2 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 238M Primes/sec 331M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 66.5M Strings/sec 47.5M Strings/sec
Data encryption 40 GBytes/sec 22.5 GBytes/sec
Data compression 628.9 MBytes/sec 387.1 MBytes/sec
Physics 1916 Frames/sec 3573 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 40.4B Matrices/sec 29.3B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4]

Value for money

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Specifications

Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen 9 5950X and Ryzen 7 7800X3D

General

Vendor AMD AMD
Released October 8, 2020 January 4, 2023
Type Desktop Desktop
instruction set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Zen 3 (Vermeer) Zen 4 (Raphael)
Integrated GPU No Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 16 8
P-Threads 32 16
Base Frequency (P) 3.4 GHz 4.2 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 4.9 GHz 5 GHz
Total
Total Cores 16 8
Total Threads 32 16
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 34x 42x
L1 Cache 64K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 512K (per core) 1MB (per core)
L3 Cache 64MB (shared) 96MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier Yes -

Package

Transistors 4.15 billions 13.1 billions
Fabrication process 7 nm 5 nm
TDP (PL1) 105 W 120 W
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) - 162 W
Socket AM4 AM5
Peak temperature 95°C 89°C

iGPU

Integrated Graphics - Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)
GPU Base Clock - 1500 MHz
GPU Boost Clock - 2200 MHz
Shading Units - 448
TMUs - 8
ROPs - 4
Execution Units - 2
TGP - 15 W
iGPU FLOPS
Ryzen 9 5950X
n/a
Ryzen 7 7800X3D
1.43 TFLOPS

Memory Support

Memory types - DDR4-3200 - DDR5-5200
Memory Size 128 GB 128 GB
Max. Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth 47.68 GB/s -
ECC Support Yes Yes

Misc

Official site AMD Ryzen 9 5950X official page AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 5.0
PCI Express Lanes 20 28

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Comments

So which CPU will you choose: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D or Ryzen 9 5950X?
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