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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D vs AMD Ryzen 9 3950X. Specifications, performance, tests

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2023-04-06
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
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2019-07-07
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AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X

What's the best choice AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D or AMD Ryzen 9 3950X? Which processor is faster?

Compare the available specifications of these models.

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D has a base frequency of 4.2 GHz. 8 / 16 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 120 W. Released in 2023-04-06.

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X has a base frequency of 3.5 GHz. 16 / 32 CPU Cores / Threads. Stated TDP / base power 105 W. Released in 2019-07-07.

Differences

  • Higher clock speed

    Around 20% better clock speed

    4.2 GHz left arrow 3.5 GHz
  • Higher turbo clock speed

    Around 6% higher specified turbo frequency

    5 GHz left arrow 4.7 GHz

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • iGPU - FP32 Performance (Single-precision GFLOPS)
    536 place
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X Reasons to consider
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
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  • Place in the overall ranking

    (based on several benchmarks)

    34 left arrow place
  • More number of cores

    8 more cores

    16 left arrow 8
  • Lower stated TDP / base power

    Power limits alone do not measure performance per watt.

    105 W left arrow 120 W

Positions in all rankings

Common positions AMD Ryzen 9 3950X CPU in popular benchmarks, for comparison with other models.

  • Cinebench R23 (Single-Core)
    120 place
  • Cinebench R23 (Multi-Core)
    38 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Single-Core)
    84 place
  • Cinebench R20 (Multi-Core)
    29 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Single-Core)
    50 place
  • Cinebench R15 (Multi-Core)
    20 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Single-Core)
    197 place
  • Geekbench 5, 64bit (Multi-Core)
    49 place
  • Monero Hashrate kH/s
    19 place
  • Blender 2.81 (bmw27)
    8 place
  • Estimated results for PassMark CPU Mark
    37 place

Specifications

Technical data
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
CPU family and group

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

  • CPU group
    AMD Ryzen 7000 left arrow AMD Ryzen 3000
  • Family
    Ryzen left arrow Ryzen
  • Form Factor
    Desktops / Boxed Processor left arrow Desktops / Boxed Processor
  • Generation
    6 left arrow 3
  • Predecessor
    AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D left arrow -
  • Segment
    Desktop left arrow Desktop / Server
  • Series
    Ryzen 7000 Series left arrow Ryzen 3000 Series
  • Successor
    - left arrow AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
CPU Technical specs

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

  • Base Frequency
    4.2 GHz left arrow 3.5 GHz
  • Core architecture
    normal left arrow normal
  • Core Configuration
    8x left arrow -
  • CPU Cores
    8 left arrow 16
  • CPU Threads
    16 left arrow 32
  • Hyperthreading / SMT
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Max. Boost Clock
    5 GHz left arrow 4.7 GHz
  • Overclocking
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Turbo Frequency (1 Core)
    5.6 GHz left arrow 4.7 GHz
  • Turbo Frequency (8 Cores)
    5.4 GHz left arrow -
  • Turbo Frequency (16 Cores)
    - left arrow 4 GHz
IGPU

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 left arrow -
  • Execution units
    2 left arrow -
  • Generation
    9 left arrow -
  • GPU Frequency
    2200 MHz left arrow -
  • GPU name
    AMD Radeon Graphics left arrow None
  • GPU Turbo
    2200 MHz left arrow -
  • Graphics Cores
    2 left arrow -
  • Max. displays
    3 left arrow -
  • Max. GPU Memory
    8 GB left arrow -
  • Release date
    Q3/2022 left arrow -
  • Shader
    128 left arrow -
  • Technology
    5 nm left arrow -
Hardware codec support

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

  • AV1
    No left arrow No
  • H.264 / AVC
    Decode / Encode left arrow No
  • h265 / HEVC (8 bit)
    Decode / Encode left arrow No
  • h265 / HEVC (10 bit)
    Decode / Encode left arrow No
  • JPEG
    Decode / Encode left arrow No
  • VC-1
    Decode left arrow No
  • VP8
    Decode / Encode left arrow No
  • VP9
    Decode / Encode left arrow No
Memory specs & PCI

Types, channel quantity of RAM supported by AMD Ryzen 9 3950X and AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D. Depending on the motherboards, higher or lower memory frequencies may be supported.

  • ECC
    Yes left arrow Yes
  • Max. Memory
    128 GB left arrow 128 GB
  • Memory Bandwidth
    83.2 GB/s left arrow -
  • Memory channels
    2 left arrow 2
  • Memory type
    DDR5 left arrow DDR4
  • PCIe
    PCIe 5.0 left arrow PCIe 4.0
  • PCIe lanes
    - left arrow 20
  • PCIe version
    - left arrow 4.0
Encryption
  • AES-NI
    Yes left arrow Yes
Thermal Management

Compare the TDP requirements of TDP AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D and AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 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
    120 W left arrow 105 W
  • Maximum Operating Temperature
    89 °C left arrow 95 °C
  • TDP (PL1, legacy label)
    170 W left arrow 105 W
  • TDP (PL2)
    230 W left arrow 142 W
Technologies and extensions

Architecture, interfaces, additional instructions supported by AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D and AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, virtual machine technologies and process technology.

  • Architecture
    Raphael (Zen 4) left arrow Matisse (Zen 2)
  • Chip design
    Chiplet left arrow -
  • Codename
    Raphael AM5 left arrow Matisse
  • Instruction set (ISA)
    x86-64 (64 bit) left arrow x86-64 (64 bit)
  • ISA extensions
    SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2,FMA3, AVX2, AVX512 left arrow SSE4a, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AVX2, FMA3
  • L2-Cache
    8 MB left arrow 8 MB
  • L3-Cache
    96 MB left arrow 64 MB
  • Operating systems
    Windows 10, Windows 11, Linux left arrow Windows 11 - 64-Bit Edition / Windows 10 - 64-Bit Edition / RHEL x86 64-Bit / Ubuntu x86 64-Bit
  • Release date
    2023-04-06 left arrow 2019-07-07
  • Socket
    AM5 left arrow AM4
  • Technology
    TSMC 5nm FinFET left arrow TSMC 7nm FinFET
  • Virtualization
    AMD-V, SVM left arrow AMD-V, SVM
  • L1-Cache
    - left arrow 1 MB
  • Manufacturer product ID (boxed)
    - left arrow 100-100000051WOF
  • Manufacturer product ID (tray)
    - left arrow 100-000000051
  • Thermal Solution (PIB)
    - left arrow Cooler Not Included, Liquid Cooling Recommended

Benchmarks

Performance tests CPUs

Shared tests with results for both models: 11

Blender Cycles

Each row uses one Blender version, operating system and compute backend.

Test and settingsAMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D AMD Ryzen 9 3950XResult difference¹
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Linux 308.852511 samples/min Submissions: 16 391.034217 samples/min Submissions: 5 +26.6 %
Blender 5.1.1 / CPU / Windows 293.059443 samples/min Submissions: 72 356.232453 samples/min Submissions: 7 +21.6 %
Blender 4.5.0 / CPU / Windows 262.013881 samples/min Submissions: 304 349.707646 samples/min Submissions: 43 +33.5 %
Blender 4.4.0 / CPU / Windows 255.841339 samples/min Submissions: 169 323.132971 samples/min Submissions: 17 +26.3 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Linux 325.124482 samples/min Submissions: 29 385.410161 samples/min Submissions: 6 +18.5 %
Blender 4.3.0 / CPU / Windows 252.365344 samples/min Submissions: 333 320.687592 samples/min Submissions: 20 +27.1 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Linux 318.647564 samples/min Submissions: 48 377.646335 samples/min Submissions: 7 +18.5 %
Blender 4.2.0 / CPU / Windows 255.855441 samples/min Submissions: 410 329.549583 samples/min Submissions: 26 +28.8 %
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Linux 328.969128 samples/min Submissions: 33 463.472754 samples/min Submissions: 5 +40.9 %
Blender 4.1.0 / CPU / Windows 264.848985 samples/min Submissions: 310 343.483159 samples/min Submissions: 17 +29.7 %
Blender 4.0.0 / CPU / Windows 265.58705 samples/min Submissions: 555 347.032225 samples/min Submissions: 45 +30.7 %

¹ Difference of the second result relative to the first in that row. No percentage is calculated for different upscaling algorithms. This compares published results, not a universal performance index.

Individual model tests

These results have no shared test of both models with the same version and settings. They are shown separately without a percentage difference.

AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D

AMD Ryzen 9 3950X

Results with primary test sources

Published measurements are separate from the archived index. Incomplete conditions and unknown run counts do not support ranking positions or calculated performance differences.

Model TestResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Cinebench R15 / multi-core 2974 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Cinebench R15 / single-core 291 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Cinebench R20 / multi-core 7121 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Cinebench R20 / single-core 709 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Cinebench R23 / multi-core 18086 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D Cinebench R23 / single-core 1820 points Graphics card: GeForce RTX 4090
System RAM: 32 GB

Individual system tests

Results were obtained on the reported systems. Test versions and settings remain separate; incomplete conditions do not support calculated model performance differences.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D 10164.770937 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 16 threads / windows
System RAM: 96 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Motherboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. / B650I AORUS ULTRA
Duration: 98.379 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 32 threads / windows

Model ResultReported conditions
AMD Ryzen 9 3950X 17352.073573 H/s RandomX / XMRig 6.26.0 / 1M / 32 threads / windows
System RAM: 32 GB
OS: Windows NT 10.0
Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. / TUF GAMING X570-PLUS (WI-FI)
Duration: 57.63 s
User-submitted run; tuning and power settings are incomplete.

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