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

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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Intel Core i9-9900KF

Price

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$ 198.00

$ 201.00 significantly less expensive

$ 399.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6345 points

6827 points

7% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7643 points

8465 points

10% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

5911 points

6279 points

6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5785 points

6130 points

5% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6052 points

7066 points

16% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

180.28 points

2% slightly higher Blender score

176.47 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8116 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

8008 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1623 points

1647 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8090 points

8172 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1674 points

1723 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

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

Identical

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

204th 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

2019 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2666

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 7 3700X vs Core i9-9900KF specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Core i9-9900KF beats the Ryzen 7 3700X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700X in all gaming tests too.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores and the same number of threads. Both the Ryzen 7 3700X and Core i9-9900KF have the same clock speed. Despite this, the Core i9-9900KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3700X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9900KF 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 3700X has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900KF. The Ryzen 7 3700X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 Ryzen 7 3700X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.