AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Intel Core i9-10900

Compare AMD Ryzen 7 Desktop 8 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 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

$ 230.00
$ 160.77 significantly less expensive
$ 390.77

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7216 points
7582 points
5% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8527 points
8692 points
1% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points
7207 points
6% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6644 points
7099 points
6% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6357 points
12127 points
90% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.87 points
12% slightly higher Blender score
164.66 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8580 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
7743 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1738 points
10% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1567 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8527 points
2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8309 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1771 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1714 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
10
25% slightly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
20
25% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.9 GHz
39% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.2 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

512 KiB
640 KiB
25% slightly more L1 cache

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

4 MiB
60% significantly more L2 cache
2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

32 MiB
60% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

176th of 1,089
164th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop
10th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Core i9-10900 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-10900 performs better than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3800XT in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core i9-10900 has slightly more cores with 10 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 3800XT that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10900 outputs less heat than Ryzen 7 3800XT thanks to a 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 3800XT has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i9-10900. The Ryzen 7 3800XT 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. Indeed, the Ryzen 7 3800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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