Intel Core i9-9940X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Core i9-9940X vs Ryzen 7 5800X3D specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9940X performs better than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9940X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. Indeed, the Core i9-9940X has 14 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-9940X. Also, the Ryzen 7 5800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800X3D outputs less heat than Core i9-9940X thanks to a significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 i9-9940X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.