AMD Ryzen 5 3500X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Compare AMD 6 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D

Price

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$ 130.00

$ 325.05 significantly less expensive

$ 455.05

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

4161 points

10982 points

163% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

6597 points

13108 points

98% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

3390 points

10252 points

202% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

3252 points

10031 points

208% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

3860 points

10082 points

161% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

85.91 points

325.43 points

278% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

5889 points

18346 points

211% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1572 points

3336 points

112% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

33% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

166% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz

4.7 GHz

30% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.1 GHz

5.2 GHz

26% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W

84% significantly lower TDP

120 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

384 KiB

640 KiB

66% significantly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

3 MiB

8 MiB

166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB

96 MiB

200% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

423rd of 1,089

70th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 September

2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 5 3500X vs Ryzen 7 9800X3D comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D performs better than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 5 3500X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has slightly more cores with 8 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 3500X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 3500X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 5 3500X. Also, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 5 3500X CPU outputs less heat than a Ryzen 7 9800X3D 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 7 9800X3D has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 5 3500X. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D also has significantly more L3 cache.

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.