AMD Ryzen 7 3800X vs Intel Core i7-9800X

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 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

$ 339.99
$ 428.89 significantly less expensive
$ 768.88

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

6549 points
6761 points
3% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

7888 points
8246 points
4% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6111 points
6264 points
2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

5988 points
6133 points
2% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.59 points
13% slightly higher Blender score
163.68 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9081 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
7128 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1720 points
27% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1345 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8236 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
7552 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1703 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1400 points

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

3.9 GHz
2% slightly higher clock speed
3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.5 GHz
2% slightly higher turbo speed
4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
57% significantly lower TDP
165 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
4
100% significantly more memory channels

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
Identical
512 KiB

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

218th of 1,089
206th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
Core X-series

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 3800X vs Core i7-9800X specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 3800X beats the Core i7-9800X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i7-9800X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-9800X. Also, the Ryzen 7 3800X has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3800X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-9800X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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 3800X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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