Ryzen 9 5950X vs Mobile Athlon 64 3400+

VS

Primary details

Comparing Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ and Ryzen 9 5950X processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and price.

Place in the rankingnot rated158
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data26.76
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesMobile Athlon 64AMD Ryzen 9
Power efficiencyno data25.88
Architecture codenameClawhammer (2001−2005)Vermeer (Zen 3) (2020−2022)
Release dateAugust 2005 (19 years ago)8 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$799

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

no data

Detailed specifications

Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ and Ryzen 9 5950X basic parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters indirectly say of CPU speed, though for more precise assessment you have to consider their test results.

Physical cores1 (Single-Core)16 (Hexadeca-Core)
Threads132
Base clock speedno data3.4 GHz
Boost clock speed2.2 GHz4.9 GHz
Bus rate800 MHzno data
Multiplierno data34
L1 cache128K1 MB
L2 cache1 MB8 MB
L3 cacheno data64 MB
Chip lithographyno data7 nm, 12 nm
Die size193 mm2CPU cores: 2x 80.7 sq. mm., I/O: 125 mm2
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data95 °C
Number of transistors106 millionno data
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplier-+

Compatibility

Information on Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ and Ryzen 9 5950X compatibility with other computer components: motherboard (look for socket type), power supply unit (look for power consumption) etc. Useful when planning a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. Note that power consumption of some processors can well exceed their nominal TDP, even without overclocking. Some can even double their declared thermals given that the motherboard allows to tune the CPU power parameters.

Number of CPUs in a configuration11
Socket754AM4
Power consumption (TDP)62 Watt105 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ and Ryzen 9 5950X. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsno dataMMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHA
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ and Ryzen 9 5950X are enumerated here.

AMD-V-+

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ and Ryzen 9 5950X. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesDDR1DDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data128 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data51.196 GB/s

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ and Ryzen 9 5950X.

PCIe versionno data4.0

Synthetic benchmark performance

Various benchmark results of the processors in comparison. Overall score is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.



Passmark

Passmark CPU Mark is a widespread benchmark, consisting of 8 different types of workload, including integer and floating point math, extended instructions, compression, encryption and physics calculation. There is also one separate single-threaded scenario measuring single-core performance.

Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ 333
Ryzen 9 5950X 45600
+13594%

wPrime 32

wPrime 32M is a math multi-thread processor test, which calculates square roots of first 32 million integer numbers. Its result is measured in seconds, so that the less is benchmark result, the faster the processor.

Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ 84.5
Ryzen 9 5950X 4.23
+1898%

Pros & cons summary


Physical cores 1 16
Threads 1 32
Power consumption (TDP) 62 Watt 105 Watt

Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ has 69.4% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 9 5950X, on the other hand, has 1500% more physical cores and 3100% more threads.

We couldn't decide between Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ and Ryzen 9 5950X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ is a notebook processor while Ryzen 9 5950X is a desktop one.


Should you still have questions on choice between Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ and Ryzen 9 5950X, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

Vote for your favorite

Do you think we are right or mistaken in our choice? Vote by clicking "Like" button near your favorite CPU.


AMD Mobile Athlon 64 3400+
Mobile Athlon 64 3400+
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
Ryzen 9 5950X

Similar processor comparisons

We picked several similar comparisons of processors in the same market segment and performance relatively close to those reviewed on this page.

Community ratings

Here you can see how users rate the processors, as well as rate them yourself.


No user ratings yet.

Rate Mobile Athlon 64 3400 on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
4.5 2478 votes

Rate Ryzen 9 5950X on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Questions & comments

Here you can ask a question about Mobile Athlon 64 3400+ or Ryzen 9 5950X, agree or disagree with our judgements, or report an error or mismatch.