Intel Core i7-9800X vs AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D

Compare Intel Core X-series 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 768.88
$ 569.05
$ 199.83 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6761 points
15772 points
133% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8246 points
15040 points
82% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6264 points
16008 points
155% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6133 points
16094 points
162% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

163.68 points
466.69 points
185% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7552 points
20191 points
167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1400 points
3294 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
12
49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
4.4 GHz
15% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5.5 GHz
25% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

165 W
120 W
37% slightly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

4
100% significantly more memory channels
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
960 KiB
87% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

5 MiB
128 MiB
2460% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

206th of 1,089
19th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Core X-series
Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November
2025 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
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Core i7-9800X vs Ryzen 9 9900X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D is faster than the Core i7-9800X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9800X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-9800X that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-9800X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9800X. Also, the Ryzen 9 9900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 9 9900X3D outputs less heat than Core i7-9800X thanks to a slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Core i7-9800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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