AMD Ryzen 5 5500 vs AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D. Specifications, performance, tests

Background information about the processors being compared, series, generation and market segment.

• Family
  AMD Ryzen AMD Ryzen 9
• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 5000G AMD Ryzen 7000
• Segment
  Desktop / Server Desktop / Server
• Generation
  4 6

Basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base and turbo frequency, and cache size. These parameters indirectly tell about the speed of the processor, the higher they are the better.

• CPU Cores / Threads
  6 / 12 16 / 32
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Cores
  6x 16x Zen 4
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Overclocking
  Yes No
• Frequency
  3.60 GHz 4.20 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  4.20 GHz 5.70 GHz

Internal Graphics does not affect the performance of the CPU, performs the work of the graphics card in its absence or on mobile devices.

• GPU name
  no iGPU AMD Radeon Graphics (Raphael)
• GPU frequency
  -- 0.40 GHz
• GPU (Turbo)
  No turbo 2.20 GHz
• Execution units
  -- 2
• Shader
  -- 128
• Max. GPU Memory
  -- 8 GB
• Max. displays
  -- 3
• Generation
  -- 9
• Direct X
  -- 12
• Technology
  -- 5 nm
• Release date
  -- Q3/2022

Built-in codecs used to encode and decode content. Significantly speeds up the required operations.

• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h264
  No Decode / Encode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode
• AV1
  No No
• AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D and AMD Ryzen 5 5500. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• Memory type
  DDR4-3200 DDR5-5200
• Max. Memory
  64 GB 128 GB
• Memory channels
  2 2 (Dual Channel)
• Bandwidth
  51.2 GB/s 83.2 GB/s
• ECC
  No Yes
• PCIe
  3.0 x 24 5.0 x 24
• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 5 5500 and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D to select a cooling system. Note, the TDP value refers to thermal watts, not electrical watts.

• TDP (PL2)
  -- 162 W
• TDP down
  45 W --
• Tjunction max.
  95 °C 89 °C

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 5 5500 and AMD Ryzen 5 5500, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Instruction set (ISA)
  x86-64 (64 bit) x86-64 (64 bit)
• ISA extensions
  SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3 SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512
• L2-Cache
  3.00 MB 16.00 MB
• L3-Cache
  16.00 MB 128.00 MB
• Architecture
  Cezanne (Zen 3) Raphael (Zen 4)
• Documents
  Technical data sheet Technical data sheet
• Technology
  7 nm 5 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM
• Socket
  AM4 AM5 (LGA 1718)
• Release date
  Q2/2022 Q1/2023