Page 1: Generational stragglers: AMD Ryzen 9 5950 X and Ryzen 7 5800 X in the test

As announced, AMD gave us the first four Ryzen – 5000 – models are now also supplied with the two missing model variants. We are therefore now completing the test series with the top model with 16 Cores, the AMD Ryzen 9 5950 X, and around the AMD Ryzen 7 5800 X with only half as many cores. How the two Ryzen CPUs fare in practice can be found in this Hardware Luxx comparison test on the following pages.

Last Thursday, AMD sent the first four models of its new Ryzen – 5000 – Generation in the running, which depending on the model variant between six and 16 cores and should catch up, especially in terms of single core and gaming performance. As our extensive launch test showed, the US-American chipmaker was able to actually deliver on what was promised with numerous detailed improvements within the Zen 3 architecture, which mainly affect the structure and the cache memory, and thus in many benchmarks also the bring down the last bastion of the competitor.

On Thursday we could only get the measurements for the AMD Ryzen 9 5900 X and the AMD Ryzen 5 5600 X deliver, since the two missing models should not reach us until the market launch. AMD decided to supply the press landscape with different models at different times. We are now catching up with our measurement series with the two missing models and now also have the AMD Ryzen 9 5950 X and the AMD Ryzen 7 5800 X can test.

Who all the details about Ryzen 5000 and would like to experience the Zen 3 architecture, you can read about it in our big practical test from yesterday. In this article we only want to dive into the readings of the two stragglers.

The AMD Ryzen 9 5950 X is the new top model for the AM4 platform, the proud 16 cores and 24 Threads with a clock rate of 3.4 to 4.9 GHz throws into the balance and on a 64 MB L3 cache. This means that the new flagship continues to increase in the generation comparison, especially in the boost clock, but is still used by AMD in the 105 – W-TDP- Class sorted. 799 euros the group wants for it.

With a targeted price of 449 Euro the AMD Ryzen 7 is significantly cheaper 5800 X. It offers eight cores and 12 Threads only half as many cores and makes on top of that, it gets to work with a top clock of only 4.7 GHz. Due to the lack of a second CCX, the L3 cache is also halved. Nevertheless it is still about 105 – W model.

The new Ryzen processors at a glance

	Cores / Threads	Base / Boost	L3 cache	L2 cache	TDP	Price
Ryzen 9 5950 X	16 / 32	3.4 / 4.9 GHz	64 MB	8 MB	105 W	799 Euro
Ryzen 9 3950 X	16 / 32	3.5 / 4.7 GHz	64 MB	8 MB	105 W	approximately 669 Euro
Ryzen 9 5900 X	12 / 24	3.7 / 4.8 GHz	64 MB	6 MB	105 W	549 Euro
Ryzen 9 3900 XT	12 / 24	3.8 / 4.7 GHz	64 MB	6 MB	105 W	approximately 429 Euro
Ryzen 9 3900 X	12 / 24	3.8 / 4.6 GHz	64 MB	6 MB	105 W	about 399 Euro
Ryzen 7 5800 X	8th / 16	3.8 / 4.7 GHz	32 MB	4 MB	105 W	449 Euro
Ryzen 7 3800 XT	8th / 16	3.9 / 4.7 GHz	32 MB	4 MB	105 W	about 309 Euro
Ryzen 7 3800 X	8th / 16	3.9 / 4.5 GHz	32 MB	4 MB	105 W	approximately 299 Euro
Ryzen 7 3700 X	8th / 16	3.6 / 4.4 GHz	32 MB	4 MB	65 W	approximately 279 Euro
Ryzen 5 5600 X	6 / 12	3.7 / 4.6 GHz	32 MB	3 MB	65 W	299 Euro
Ryzen 5 3600 XT	6 / 12	3.8 / 4.5 GHz	32 MB	3 MB	95 W	approximately 199 Euro
Ryzen 5 3600 X	6 / 12	3.8 / 4.4 GHz	32 MB	3 MB	95 W	about 199 Euro
Ryzen 5 3600	6 / 12	3.6 / 4.2 GHz	32 MB	3 MB	65 W	approximately 179 Euro

Two stragglers in the test