AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 vs Ryzen 9 5950X

We compared two CPUs: the 2.0 GHz AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (laptop) with 12-cores against the 3.4 GHz Ryzen 9 5950X (desktop) with 16-cores. On this page, you'll find out which processor has better performance in benchmarks, games and other useful information.

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
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Key Differences

What are the key differences between 5950X and 370
Advantages of AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
  • Newer - released 3 years and 8 months later
  • Supports up to 256 GB DDR5-5600 RAM
  • More modern manufacturing process – 4 versus 7 nanometers
  • 31% faster in a single-core Geekbench v6 test - 2985 vs 2276 points
  • Includes an integrated GPU AMD Radeon 890M
  • 4% higher Turbo Boost frequency (5.1 GHz vs 4.9 GHz)
Advantages of AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
  • Has 40 MB larger L3 cache size, helping fully utilize a high-end GPU in gaming
  • Unlocked multiplier
  • Has 4 more physical cores

Test in Benchmarks

Comparing the performance of CPUs across various tasks

Cinebench

Reputable cross-platform benchmark for high-performance processors
Cinebench 2024 (Single)
Cinebench 2024 (Multi)
Cinebench 2026 (Single) 475 464
Cinebench 2026 (Multi) 5200 5693
Cinebench Scores (102nd and 75th place)

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)
15976
File compression 1340 MB/sec 1120 MB/sec
Clang compilation 139.9 Klines/sec 147.1 Klines/sec
HTML 5 Browser 335.1 pages/sec 224.5 pages/sec
PDF Renderer 468.2 Mpixels/sec 372.1 Mpixels/sec
Text processing 322.1 pages/sec 222.5 pages/sec
Background blur 63.8 images/sec 28.4 images/sec
Photo processing 124.6 images/sec 85 images/sec
Ray tracing 33.5 Mpixels/sec 38.4 Mpixels/sec
Sources: GeekBench [1], [2] – 3 & 741 samples

PassMark

Synthetic test that focuses on raw computational performance for low-level functions
Passmark CPU (Single-Core)
Passmark CPU (Multi-Core)
45260
Integer math 122.2 GOps/sec 183.9 GOps/sec
Floating point math 76.4 GOps/sec 100.5 GOps/sec
Find prime numbers 127M Primes/sec 223M Primes/sec
Random string sorting 48.3M Strings/sec 64.9M Strings/sec
Data encryption 22.1 GBytes/sec 39.4 GBytes/sec
Data compression 442.7 MBytes/sec 622.5 MBytes/sec
Physics 1881 Frames/sec 1854 Frames/sec
Extended instructions 31.4B Matrices/sec 40.4B Matrices/sec
Sources: PassMark [3], [4] – 3074 & 19398 samples

Blender

3D rendering test that measures CPU performance in 3D modeling tasks (uses all cores)
Blender CPU
413.83

Performance Per Watt

Shows the score you get per each watt of PL1 TDP
Cinebench 2024 / Watt 23 PPW 13.9 PPW
Geekbench 6 Multi / Watt 295.9 PPW 121.2 PPW
Passmark CPU Mark / Watt 647.4 PPW 431 PPW
Blender / Watt 5.21 PPW 3.94 PPW
These are rough calculations, as most CPUs surpass PL1 TDP wattage even in multicore workloads.

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-08-26 (Nvdya)Cinebench 2024114 / 1135
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-24 (Peterr)Cinebench 2024117 / 962
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-18 (Rennsport)GeekBench2904 / 15532
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-18 (Asus Tuf FA608WI)Cinebench 2024104 / 1050
πŸ“˜ 2025-03-15 (Urxelix)Cinebench 2024116 / 1217
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
DateBenchmarkResult
πŸ“˜ 2026-07-12 (stream pc)Cinebench 2026456 / 4979
πŸ“˜ 2026-06-30 (DDD)Cinebench 2026464 / 5693
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-04 (PhillyBass)GeekBench2259 / 12745
πŸ“˜ 2025-12-04 (PhillyBass)Cinebench 202499 / 1448
πŸ“˜ 2025-10-07 (C0d3M0nk3y)Cinebench 202497 / 1451

Specifications

Full technical specification of AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen 9 5950X

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Released June 3, 2024 October 8, 2020
Type Laptop Desktop
Instruction Set x86-64 x86-64
Codename Zen 5 (Strix Point) Zen 3 (Vermeer)
Model number 370 -
Integrated GPU Radeon 890M No
Rival Equivalent - Intel Core Ultra 9 285H - Intel Core i9 11900K
Successor - AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 - AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
AMD Ryzen CPU ranking (31st and 51st place)

CPU

Performance Cores
P-Cores 4 16
P-Threads 8 32
Base Frequency (P) 2.0 GHz 3.4 GHz
Turbo Boost Frequency (P) 5.1 GHz 4.9 GHz
Efficient Cores
E-Cores 8 -
E-Threads 16 -
Base Frequency (E) 2.0 GHz -
Turbo Boost Frequency (E) 3.3 GHz -
Total
Total Cores 12 16
Total Threads 24 32
Bus Frequency 100 MHz 100 MHz
Multiplier 20x 34x
L1 Cache 80K (per core) 64K (per core)
L2 Cache 1MB (per core) 512K (per core)
L3 Cache 24MB (shared) 64MB (shared)
Unlocked Multiplier No Yes

Package

Transistors - 4.15 billions
Fabrication Process 4 nm 7 nm
TDP (PL1) 15-54 W (configurable) 105 W
Max. Boost TDP (PL2) - 142 W
Socket FP8 AM4
Peak Temperature 100Β°C 95Β°C
Desktop CPU ranking (#71st place)

iGPU

Integrated Graphics AMD Radeon 890M -
GPU Base Clock 400 MHz -
GPU Boost Clock 2900 MHz -
Shading Units 1024 -
TMUs 64 -
ROPs 32 -
Execution Units 16 -
TGP 15 W -
iGPU FLOPS

Memory Support

Memory Types - DDR5-5600
- LPDDR5X-8000
- DDR4-3200
Max. Memory Size 256 GB 128 GB
Memory Channels 2 2
Max. Memory Bandwidth - 47.68 GB/s
ECC Support No Yes

Misc

Official Site AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 official page AMD Ryzen 9 5950X official page
PCI Express Version 4.0 4.0
PCI Express Lanes 16 20

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