AMD Ryzen 9 3950X: CPU Specs and Performance, Benchmarks
The AMD Ryzen 9 3950X is a 16-core and 32-thread processor configuration with a base clock speed of 3500 MHz. The CPU specifications and performance tests (benchmarks) are listed below.
Performance (Benchmarks)
- Geekbench 5 Single-Core Score
- 1299
- Geekbench 5 Multi-Core Score
- 14173
- PassMark CPU Mark Rating
- 39194
- PassMark Single Thread Rating
- 2742
- 3DMark Time Spy Physics Score
- 13277
Processor Specs
- Processor
- AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
- Frequency
- 3500 MHz
- Maximum Frequency
- 4700 MHz
- Cores
- 16
- Threads
- 32
- TDP
- 105 W
- Codename
- Matisse
- Package
- Socket AM4 (1331)

Geekbench 5 Benchmark
- Single-Core Score
- 1299
- Multi-Core Score
- 16494
- Benchmark
- Geekbench 5.4.1 Tryout for Linux x86 (64-bit)
System Information
- Operating System
- Ubuntu 21.04
- Model
- Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MS-7C35
- Motherboard
- Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. MEG X570 ACE (MS-7C35)
CPU Specifications
- Name
- AMD Ryzen 9 3950X
- Topology
- 1 Processor, 16 Cores, 32 Threads
- Identifier
- AuthenticAMD Family 23 Model 113 Stepping 0
- Base Frequency
- 5.44 GHz
- L1 Instruction Cache
- 32.0 KB x 16
- L1 Data Cache
- 32.0 KB x 16
- L2 Cache
- 512 KB x 16
- L3 Cache
- 16.0 MB x 4
Memory Information
- Size
- 31.33 GB
Geekbench 5 result (single)
| Single-Core Score | 1299 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 2203 |
| Integer Score | 1145 |
| Floating Point Score | 1482 |
| AES-XTS | 2203 3.76 GB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 1300 6.58 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 1211 57.3 Mpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 1270 3.58 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 948 1.11 MElements/sec |
| SQLite | 982 307.7 Krows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 1121 60.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 1081 344.3 KB/sec |
| Clang | 1140 8.89 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 1317 15.3 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 1404 1.76 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 1213 7513.6 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 1455 80.0 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 1355 10.4 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 1216 30.0 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 2597 127.4 Mpixels/sec |
| HDR | 2530 34.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 1656 1.33 Mpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 1126 10.1 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 1261 40.3 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 1199 46.3 images/sec |
Geekbench 5 result (multi)
| Multi-Core Score | 16494 |
|---|---|
| Crypto Score | 7969 |
| Integer Score | 16410 |
| Floating Point Score | 18097 |
| AES-XTS | 7969 13.6 GB/sec |
| Text Compression (LZMA) | 22985 116.3 MB/sec |
| Image Compression | 21617 1.02 Gpixels/sec |
| Navigation (using Dijkstra's algorithm) | 6536 18.4 MTE/sec |
| HTML5 | 21156 24.8 MElements/sec |
| SQLite | 22174 6.95 Mrows/sec |
| PDF Rendering | 16224 880.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Text Rendering | 8869 2.76 MB/sec |
| Clang | 24842 193.6 Klines/sec |
| Camera | 15845 183.7 images/sec |
| N-Body Physics | 15841 19.8 Mpairs/sec |
| Rigid Body Physics | 27323 169278.5 FPS |
| Gaussian Blur | 18062 992.9 Mpixels/sec |
| Face Detection | 23291 179.3 images/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 15768 388.7 Mpixels/sec |
| Image Inpainting | 26280 1.29 Gpixels/sec |
| HDR | 31289 426.3 Mpixels/sec |
| Ray Tracing | 30564 24.5 Mpixels/sec |
| Structure from Motion | 18161 162.7 Kpixels/sec |
| Speech Recognition | 11791 377.0 Words/sec |
| Machine Learning | 4414 170.6 images/sec |