AMD Ryzen 7 3700X vs Intel Core i9-9900K

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i9 8 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

$ 198.00
$ 152.22 significantly less expensive
$ 350.22

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6345 points
6719 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points
8223 points
7% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points
6214 points
5% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points
6073 points
4% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6052 points
7038 points
16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points
2% slightly higher Blender score
175.64 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8116 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
7957 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1623 points
1634 points
0.68% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8090 points
0.46% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8053 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1674 points
1703 points
1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
Identical
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
Identical
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.6 GHz
Identical
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.4 GHz
5 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

65 W
46% significantly lower TDP
95 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
Identical
512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
100% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
100% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

233rd of 1,089
209th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
9th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2018 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Core i9-9900K comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-9900K is faster than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Ryzen 7 3700X and Core i9-9900K have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-9900K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3700X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9900K CPU because of its significantly 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 7 3700X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900K. The Ryzen 7 3700X 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 Ryzen 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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