AMD Ryzen 9 7950X vs AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

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We compared two desktop CPUs: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X with 16 cores 4.5GHz and AMD Ryzen 5 3500X with 6 cores 3.6GHz . You will find out which processor performs better in benchmark tests, key specifications, power consumption and more.

Main Differences

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Integrated graphics card

Better graphics card performance

Higher specification of memory (DDR5-5200 vs DDR4-3200)

Larger memory bandwidth (73.4GB/s vs 51.2GB/s)

Newer PCIe version (5.0 vs 4)

Higher base frequency (4.5GHz vs 3.6GHz)

Larger L3 cache size (64MB vs 32MB)

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X 's Advantages

Lower TDP (65W vs 170W)

Score

Benchmark

Cinebench R23 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +76%

2059

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

1166

Cinebench R23 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +468%

38165

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

6717

Geekbench 6 Single Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +85%

3068

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

1650

Geekbench 6 Multi Core

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X +228%

21409

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

6523

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

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AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

General Parameters

Aug 2022

Release Date

Sep 2019

Amd

Manufacturer

AMD

Desktop

Type

Desktop

x86-64

Instruction Set

-

Zen 4 (Raphael)

Core Architecture

Matisse

AM5

Socket

AMD Socket AM4

Radeon Graphics (Ryzen 7000)

Integrated Graphics

N/A

-

Generation

Ryzen 5 (Zen 2 (Matisse))

Package

13.1 billions

Transistor Count

3.8 billions

5 nm

Manufacturing Process

7 nm

AM5

Socket

AMD Socket AM4

170 W

Power Consumption

65 W

230 W

Max Turbo Power Consumption

-

95°C

Peak Operating Temperature

95 °C

-

Foundry

TSMC

-

Die Size

74 mm²

-

I/O Process Size

12 nm

-

I/O Die Size

124 mm²

-

Package

µOPGA-1331

CPU Performance

16

Performance Cores

-

32

Performance Core Threads

-

4.5 GHz

Performance Core Base Frequency

3.6 GHz

5.7 GHz

Performance Core Turbo Frequency

4.1 GHz

16

Total Core Count

6

32

Total Thread Count

6

100 MHz

Bus Frequency

100 MHz

45x

Multiplier

36.0

64 K per core

L1 Cache

64 KB per core

1 MB per core

L2 Cache

512 KB per core

64 MB shared

L3 Cache

32 MB shared

Yes

Unlocked Multiplier

Yes

-

SMP

1

Memory Parameters

DDR5-5200

Memory Types

DDR4-3200

128 GB

Max Memory Size

-

2

Max Memory Channels

2

73.4 GB/s

Max Memory Bandwidth

51.2 GB/s

Yes

ECC Memory Support

No

Graphics Card Parameters

true

Integrated Graphics

-

1500 MHz

GPU Base Frequency

-

2200 MHz

GPU Max Dynamic Frequency

-

448

Shader Units

-

8

Texture Units

-

4

Raster Operation Units

-

2

Execution Units

-

15 W

Power Consumption

-

1.43 TFLOPS

Graphics Performance

1.18 TFLOPS

Miscellaneous

AMD Ryzen 9 7950X

Official Website

AMD Ryzen 5 3500X

5.0

PCIe Version

4

28

PCIe Lanes

24

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