AMD Ryzen 9 5950X vs AMD EPYC 7282

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
AMD Socket AM4DESKTOP
3400 MHz / Cores: 16 / Nov 2020
AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
AMD EPYC 7282
AMD Socket SP3SERVER
2800 MHz / Cores: 16 / Aug 2019
AMD EPYC 7282

Summary

Reasons to consider AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

This is a newer product, it might have better application compatibility/performance (check features chart below).
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on raw specifications plus core architecture.
Higher theoretical multi-threaded performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.
Higher overall performance, based on specifications plus core architecture.

Reasons to consider AMD EPYC 7282

None

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Gaming

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Based on game and synthetic benchmarks, and theoretical specifications.

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Productivity

HWBench recommends AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

Based on productivity benchmarks, overall multithreaded performance and theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Features

AMD Ryzen 9 5950XAMD EPYC 7282
MMX
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
SSSE3
SSE4A
SSE4.1
SSE4.2
AES
AVX
AVX2
BMI1
BMI2
SHA
F16C
FMA3
AMD64
EVP
AMD-V
SMAP
SMEP
SMT
Precision Boost 2
XFR 2
EMMX
ABM
RdRand
ADX
CLMUL
Real
Protected
SMM
FPU
NX bit
AMD-Vi
SME
TSME
SEV
SenseMi
Boost 2

Architecture

AMD Ryzen 9 5950XAMD EPYC 7282
ArchitectureAMD Zen 3vsAMD Zen 2
MarketDesktopvsServer
Memory SupportDDR4-3200 MHz Dual-channelvsDDR4-3200 MHz Eight-channel
CodenameVermeervsRome
Release DateNov 2020vsAug 2019

Cores

AMD Ryzen 9 5950XAMD EPYC 7282
Cores16vs16
Threads32vs32
SMPs1vs2
Integrated GraphicsNovsNo

Cache

AMD Ryzen 9 5950XAMD EPYC 7282
L1 Cache64K (per core)vs96K (per core)
L2 Cache512K (per core)vs512K (per core)
L3 Cache64MBvs64MB (shared)

Physical

AMD Ryzen 9 5950XAMD EPYC 7282
SocketAMD Socket AM4vsAMD Socket SP3
Max Case Temp95°CvsN/A
PackagevsFCLGA-4094
Die Sizeunknownvs74mm²
Process7 nmvs7 nm

Performance

AMD Ryzen 9 5950XAMD EPYC 7282
Cpu Frequency3400 MHzvs2800 MHz
Turbo Clock4900 MHzvs3200 MHz
Base Clock100 MHzvs100 MHz
VoltageN/AvsN/A
TDP105 Wvs120 W

Raw performance index

Raw single-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
    5880 points
  • AMD EPYC 7282
    3584 points

Points - higher is better

Raw multi-thread performance estimation

  • AMD Ryzen 9 5950X
    79641 points
  • AMD EPYC 7282
    61214 points

Points - higher is better