Intel Core i7-6850K vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Core i7-6850K vs Ryzen 9 9900X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D performs better than the Core i7-6850K. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-6850K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-6850K has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-6850K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-6850K. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D outputs less heat than Core i7-6850K thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-6850K. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Core i7-6850K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.