AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900H. Specifications, performance, tests

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

• CPU group
  AMD Ryzen 7000 AMD Ryzen 5000H
• Family
  Ryzen AMD Ryzen
• Form Factor
  Desktops / Boxed Processor -
• Generation
  5 4
• Predecessor
  AMD Ryzen 9 5950X -
• Segment
  Desktop Mobile
• Series
  Ryzen 7000 Series -

Core counts, threads, cache and clock modes describe the CPU configuration. Performance depends on the workload and comparable measured results.

• Base Frequency
  4.5 GHz 3.1 GHz
• Core architecture
  normal normal
• Core Configuration
  16x -
• CPU Cores
  16 8
• CPU Threads
  32 16
• Hyperthreading / SMT
  Yes Yes
• Max. Boost Clock
  5.7 GHz -
• Overclocking
  Yes Yes
• Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
  5.5 GHz 4.6 GHz
• Turbo Frequency (16 Cores)
  5.2 GHz -
• Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
  - No turbo

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

• DirectX Version
  - 12
• Execution units
  - 8
• Generation
  - 9
• GPU Frequency
  2200 MHz 1750 MHz
• GPU name
  AMD Radeon Graphics AMD Radeon 8 Graphics (Renoir)
• GPU Turbo
  No turbo No turbo
• Graphics Cores
  2 -
• Max. displays
  - 3
• Max. GPU Memory
  - 2 GB
• Release date
  - Q1/2020
• Shader
  - 512
• Technology
  - 7 nm

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

• AV1
  No No
• H.264 / AVC
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
  No Decode / Encode
• JPEG
  No Decode / Encode
• VC-1
  No Decode
• VP8
  No Decode / Encode
• VP9
  No Decode / Encode

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 5900H and AMD Ryzen 9 7950X. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

• ECC
  Yes Yes
• Max. Memory
  256 GB 64 GB
• Memory Bandwidth
  83.2 GB/s -
• Memory channels
  2 2
• Memory type
  DDR5 DDR4-3200
• PCIe
  PCIe 5.0 -
• PCIe lanes
  - 12
• PCIe version
  - 3.0

• AES-NI
  Yes Yes

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and AMD Ryzen 9 5900H Power specifications describe different manufacturer limits. TDP, base power and maximum turbo power are separate values; they do not establish measured system consumption.

• Default TDP
  170 W -
• Maximum Operating Temperature
  95 °C 95 °C
• TDP (PL1, legacy label)
  170 W 45 W
• TDP (PL2)
  230 W -
• TDP up
  - 54 W

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 9 7950X and AMD Ryzen 9 5900H, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

• Architecture
  Raphael (Zen 4) Cezanne (Zen 3)
• Codename
  Raphael AM5 -
• 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, AVX2, FMA3
• L2-Cache
  16 MB 4 MB
• L3-Cache
  64 MB 16 MB
• Release date
  2022-09-27 Q2/2021
• Socket
  AM5 AM4
• Technology
  TSMC 5nm FinFET 7 nm
• Virtualization
  AMD-V, SVM AMD-V, SVM