Intel Core i9-9900K 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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$ 350.22

$ 1232.78 significantly less expensive

$ 1583.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6719 points

3% slightly better overall score

6502 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8223 points

4% slightly better gaming score

7833 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6214 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

6045 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6073 points

2% slightly better heavy workload score

5906 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.64 points

184.03 points

4% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8053 points

0.75% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7993 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1652 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

Identical

3.6 GHz

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

95 W

65 W

46% significantly lower TDP

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

209th 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

2018 November

2019 September

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666

DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Core i9-9900K vs Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900K is faster than the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 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. In terms of clock speed, the Core i9-9900K and Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 are identical in this regard. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. The Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.