Intel Core i9-9900K vs AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D

Compare Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 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

$ 350.22
$ 449.77 significantly less expensive
$ 799.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6719 points
13385 points
99% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8223 points
13203 points
60% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6214 points
13450 points
116% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6073 points
13474 points
121% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

175.64 points
398.41 points
126% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

7957 points
17603 points
121% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1634 points
2784 points
70% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8053 points
17560 points
118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points
2866 points
68% 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

3.6 GHz
4.40 GHz
22% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5 GHz
5.6 GHz
11% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

95 W
26% slightly lower TDP
120 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
768 KiB
49% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
12 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

16 MiB
128 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

209th of 1,089
38th of 1,089

Family

The product line

9th Generation Core i9
Ryzen 9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 November
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4-2666
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

No
-

Core i9-9900K vs Ryzen 9 7900X3D specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D beats the Core i9-9900K in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-9900K in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-9900K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-9900K. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9900K. Also, the Ryzen 9 7900X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Core i9-9900K CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 7900X3D CPU because of its 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 7900X3D has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. The Ryzen 9 7900X3D 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 i9-9900K has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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