Ryzen 9 5950X vs Athlon Neo MV-40

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Primary details

Comparing Athlon Neo MV-40 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 data26.78
Market segmentLaptopDesktop processor
SeriesAMD Athlon NeoAMD Ryzen 9
Power efficiencyno data25.88
Architecture codenameHuron (2009)Vermeer (Zen 3) (2020−2022)
Release date6 January 2009 (15 years ago)8 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$799

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance per price, higher is better.

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Detailed specifications

Athlon Neo MV-40 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 speed1.6 GHz4.9 GHz
Bus rate1600 MHzno data
Multiplierno data34
L1 cache128 KB1 MB
L2 cache512 KB8 MB
L3 cacheno data64 MB
Chip lithography65 nm7 nm, 12 nm
Die sizeno dataCPU cores: 2x 80.7 sq. mm., I/O: 125 mm2
Maximum core temperature95 °Cno data
Maximum case temperature (TCase)no data95 °C
64 bit support++
Windows 11 compatibility-+
Unlocked multiplier-+

Compatibility

Information on Athlon Neo MV-40 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 configurationno data1
SocketASB1AM4
Power consumption (TDP)15 Watt105 Watt

Technologies and extensions

Technological solutions and additional instructions supported by Athlon Neo MV-40 and Ryzen 9 5950X. You'll probably need this information if you require some particular technology.

Instruction set extensionsMMX, 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, AMD64, Enhanced Virus Protection, VirtualizationMMX (+), SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, SSE4A, AES, AVX, AVX2, FMA3, SHA
AES-NI-+
AVX-+
VirusProtect+-
Precision Boost 2no data+

Virtualization technologies

Virtual machine speed-up technologies supported by Athlon Neo MV-40 and Ryzen 9 5950X are enumerated here.

AMD-V++

Memory specs

Types, maximum amount and channel quantity of RAM supported by Athlon Neo MV-40 and Ryzen 9 5950X. Depending on the motherboard, higher memory frequencies may be supported.

Supported memory typesno dataDDR4
Maximum memory sizeno data128 GB
Max memory channelsno data2
Maximum memory bandwidthno data51.196 GB/s

Peripherals

Specifications and connection of peripherals supported by Athlon Neo MV-40 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.

Athlon Neo MV-40 275
Ryzen 9 5950X 45599
+16481%

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.

Athlon Neo MV-40 1274
Ryzen 9 5950X 6690
+425%

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.

Athlon Neo MV-40 1149
Ryzen 9 5950X 56641
+4832%

3DMark06 CPU

3DMark06 is a discontinued DirectX 9 benchmark suite from Futuremark. Its CPU part contains two scenarios, one dedicated to artificial intelligence pathfinding, another to game physics using PhysX package.

Athlon Neo MV-40 614
Ryzen 9 5950X 17657
+2776%

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.

Athlon Neo MV-40 102
Ryzen 9 5950X 4.23
+2311%

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.

Athlon Neo MV-40 0
Ryzen 9 5950X 48
+14394%

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.

Athlon Neo MV-40 0.1
Ryzen 9 5950X 26
+43233%

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.  

Athlon Neo MV-40 2
Ryzen 9 5950X 212
+10716%

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.  

Athlon Neo MV-40 12
Ryzen 9 5950X 330
+2745%

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.

Athlon Neo MV-40 332
Ryzen 9 5950X 12736
+3736%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 6 January 2009 8 October 2020
Physical cores 1 16
Threads 1 32
Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 15 Watt 105 Watt

Athlon Neo MV-40 has 600% lower power consumption.

Ryzen 9 5950X, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 years, 1500% more physical cores and 3100% more threads, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Athlon Neo MV-40 and Ryzen 9 5950X. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Athlon Neo MV-40 is a notebook processor while Ryzen 9 5950X is a desktop one.


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