AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs Intel Core i9-9820X

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 10 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points
6987 points
67% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points
7678 points
16% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points
6735 points
98% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points
6649 points
104% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points
204.52 points
138% significantly higher Blender score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

6
10
66% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

6
20
233% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
9% slightly higher clock speed
3.3 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz
Identical
4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
153% significantly lower TDP
165 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB
640 KiB
66% significantly more L1 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
540% significantly more L3 cache
5 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089
195th of 1,089

Family

The product line

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Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September
2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

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DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Core i9-9820X benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9820X performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Core i9-9820X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Indeed, the Core i9-9820X has 10 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 3500X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 5 3500X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-9820X. Furthermore, both these CPUs have identical turbo speeds. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9820X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. For instance, the Ryzen 5 3500X has the same number of threads as cores. This means the the CPU does not support hyperthreading.

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