Intel Core i9-9900 vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700

Price

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$ 470.48

$ 1112.52 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6105 points

6502 points

6% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7952 points

1% slightly better gaming score

7833 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5494 points

6045 points

10% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5338 points

5906 points

10% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

148.10 points

184.03 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7287 points

7993 points

9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1617 points

1652 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz

3.6 GHz

16% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz

13% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

Identical

65 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB

Identical

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB

4 MiB

100% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB

32 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

246th of 1,089

220th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9

Ryzen 7 PRO Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 May

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-9900 vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 is faster than the Core i9-9900. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9900. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 i9-9900 has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.