AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT vs Intel Core i9-9900KS

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 i9-9900KS

Price

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$ 230.00

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$ 1389.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

7216 points

7509 points

4% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8527 points

9220 points

8% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

6778 points

6930 points

2% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

6644 points

6769 points

1% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

6357 points

7296 points

14% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

185.87 points

7% slightly higher Blender score

173.21 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8580 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

8419 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1738 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1690 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

8527 points

8569 points

0.49% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1771 points

1789 points

1% 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

3.9 GHz

4.01 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

5 GHz

6% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

20% slightly lower TDP

127 W

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

176th of 1,089

167th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 7 Desktop

9th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2019 November

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 3800XT vs Core i9-9900KS benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-9900KS 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 these CPUs we notice that they have the same number of cores and the same number of threads. With our hardware info, we find that the Core i9-9900KS has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 3800XT. Also, the Core i9-9900KS has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 7 3800XT CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-9900KS CPU because of its slightly 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 3800XT has more L2 cache than the Core i9-9900KS. The Ryzen 7 3800XT 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 3800XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.