Ryzen 9 3950X: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Ryzen 9 3950X provides good benchmark performance at 24.37% of a leader's which is a 96-core EPYC 9655P.
Summary
AMD started Ryzen 9 3950X sales 14 November 2019 at a recommended price of $799. This is a Matisse (Zen 2) architecture desktop processor primarily aimed at office systems. It has 16 cores and 32 threads, and is based on 7 nm, 12 nm manufacturing technology, with a max turbo frequency of 4700 MHz and an unlocked multiplier.
Compatibility-wise, this is AMD Socket AM4 processor with a TDP of 105 Watt. It supports DDR4 Dual-channel memory.
Primary details
Ryzen 9 3950X processor market type (desktop or notebook), architecture, sales start time and pricing.
| Place in the ranking | 210 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 18.76 | |
| Market segment | Desktop processor | |
| Series | AMD Ryzen 9 | |
| Power efficiency | 21.96 | of 100.00 (Ryzen Z1 Extreme) |
| Architecture codename | Matisse (Zen 2) (2019−2020) | |
| Release date | 14 November 2019 (5 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $799 | of 17,906 (Xeon Platinum 8280L) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
Performance per price, higher is better.
Detailed specifications
Basic microprocessor parameters such as number of cores, number of threads, base frequency and turbo boost clock, lithography, cache size and multiplier lock state. These parameters can generally indicate CPU performance, but to be more precise you have to review its test results.
| Physical cores | 16 (Hexadeca-Core) | |
| Threads | 32 | |
| Base clock speed | 3.5 GHz | of 4.7 GHz (FX-9590) |
| Boost clock speed | 4.7 GHz | of 6.2 GHz (Core i9-14900KS) |
| L1 cache | 96K (per core) | of 80 KB (EPYC 9965) |
| L2 cache | 512K (per core) | of 2 MB (Xeon 6980P) |
| L3 cache | 64 MB | of 1152 MB (EPYC 9684X) |
| Chip lithography | 7 nm, 12 nm | of 3 nm (Apple M3 Max 16-Core) |
| Die size | 2 x 72 mm + 125 mm (IO-Die) mm2 | |
| Number of transistors | 19,200 million | of 135,240 million (EPYC 9684X) |
| 64 bit support | + | |
| Windows 11 compatibility | + | |
| Unlocked multiplier | + |
Compatibility
Information on Ryzen 9 3950X compatibility with other computer components and devices: 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 configuration | 1 (Uniprocessor) | of 8 (Opteron 842) |
| Socket | AM4 | |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 105 Watt | of 500 Watt (Xeon 6960P) |
Technologies and extensions
Technological capabilities and additional instructions supported by Ryzen 9 3950X. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.
| Instruction set extensions | 86x MMX(+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A,-64, AMD-V, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHA, Precision Boost 2 | |
| AES-NI | + | |
| AVX | + | |
| Precision Boost 2 | + |
Virtualization technologies
Supported virtual machine optimization technologies. Some are specific to Intel only, some to AMD.
| AMD-V | + |
Memory specs
Types, maximum amount and channel number of RAM supported by Ryzen 9 3950X's memory controller. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequency may be supported.
| Supported memory types | DDR4 Dual-channel | |
| Maximum memory size | 128 GB | of 6 TiB (EPYC 9124) |
| Maximum memory bandwidth | 51.196 GB/s | of 460.8 GB/s (EPYC 9124) |
| ECC memory support | + |
Graphics specifications
General parameters of a GPU integrated into Ryzen 9 3950X.
| Integrated graphics card | - |
Benchmark performance
Single-core and multi-core benchmark results of Ryzen 9 3950X. Overall benchmark performance is measured in points in 0-100 range, higher is better.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance rating. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
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.
GeekBench 5 Single-Core
GeekBench 5 Single-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses only a single CPU core.
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core
GeekBench 5 Multi-Core is a cross-platform application developed in the form of CPU tests that independently recreate certain real-world tasks with which to accurately measure performance. This version uses all available CPU cores.
Cinebench 10 32-bit single-core
Cinebench R10 is an ancient ray tracing benchmark for processors by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. Its single core version uses just one CPU thread to render a futuristic looking motorcycle.
Cinebench 10 32-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 10 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R10 using all the processor threads. Possible number of threads is limited by 16 in this version.
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 11.5 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R11.5 which uses all the processor threads. A maximum of 64 threads is supported in this version.
Cinebench 15 64-bit multi-core
Cinebench Release 15 Multi Core is a variant of Cinebench R15 which uses all the processor threads.
Cinebench 15 64-bit single-core
Cinebench R15 (standing for Release 15) is a benchmark made by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version (sometimes called Single-Thread) only uses a single processor thread to render a room full of reflective spheres and light sources.
Cinebench 11.5 64-bit single-core
Cinebench R11.5 is an old benchmark by Maxon, authors of Cinema 4D. It was superseded by later versions of Cinebench, which use more modern variants of Cinema 4D engine. The Single Core version loads a single thread with ray tracing to render a glossy room full of crystal spheres and light sources.
TrueCrypt AES
TrueCrypt is a discontinued piece of software that was widely used for on-the-fly-encryption of disk partitions, now superseded by VeraCrypt. It contains several embedded performance tests, one of them being TrueCrypt AES, which measures data encryption speed using AES algorithm. Result is encryption speed in gigabytes per second.
WinRAR 4.0
WinRAR 4.0 is an outdated version of a popular file archiver. It contains an internal speed test, using 'Best' setting of RAR compression on large chunks of randomly generated data. Its results are measured in kilobytes per second.
x264 encoding pass 2
x264 Pass 2 is a slower variant of x264 video compression that produces a variable bit rate output file, which results in better quality since the higher bit rate is used when it is needed more. Benchmark result is still measured in frames per second.
x264 encoding pass 1
x264 version 4.0 is a video encoding benchmark uses MPEG 4 x264 compression method to compress a sample HD (720p) video. Pass 1 is a faster variant that produces a constant bit rate output file. Its result is measured in frames per second, which means how many frames of the source video file were encoded per second.
Geekbench 5.5 Multi-Core
Blender(-)
Geekbench 5.5 Single-Core
7-Zip Single
7-Zip
WebXPRT 3
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Intel equivalent
According to our data, the closest Intel alternative to Ryzen 9 3950X is Core i5-14600K, which is faster by 1% and higher by 1 position in our ranking.
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Recommended GPUs
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