AMD Ryzen 3 1200 vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

Compare AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 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

$ 79.99
$ 189.01 significantly less expensive
$ 269.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

2292 points
9859 points
330% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

4208 points
9924 points
135% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

1753 points
9836 points
461% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

1683 points
9828 points
483% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

2718 points
10192 points
274% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

40.96 points
313.97 points
666% significantly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

3013 points
20634 points
584% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2796 points
11764 points
320% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

941 points
2141 points
127% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

2849 points
11794 points
313% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

996 points
2200 points
120% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

4
12
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

4
24
499% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.1 GHz
3.7 GHz
19% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

3.4 GHz
4.8 GHz
41% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
61% significantly lower TDP
105 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
768 KiB
100% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

2 MiB
6 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

8 MiB
64 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

661st of 1,089
94th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 3 Desktop
Ryzen 9 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 July
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 3 1200 vs Ryzen 9 5900X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 5900X is faster than the Ryzen 3 1200. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 1200 in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 5900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 1200 that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 1200. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 1200. Also, the Ryzen 9 5900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 3 1200 CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 9 5900X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 5900X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 1200. The Ryzen 9 5900X 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. For instance, the Ryzen 3 1200 has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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