AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Intel Core Ultra 9 285K

Compare AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core CPU vs Intel Core Ultra (Series 2) 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 455.05
$ 303.94 significantly less expensive
$ 758.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

10982 points
17900 points
62% significantly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

13108 points
16115 points
22% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

10252 points
18547 points
80% significantly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

10031 points
18824 points
87% significantly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

10082 points
18587 points
84% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

325.43 points
555.81 points
70% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

18346 points
22613 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

3336 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
3204 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

8
24
200% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

16
24
49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

4.7 GHz
27% slightly higher clock speed
3.7 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

5.2 GHz
5.7 GHz
9% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

8 MiB
40 MiB
400% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

96 MiB
166% significantly more L3 cache
36 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

70th of 1,089
4th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9000 Series
Core Ultra (Series 2)

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2024 November
2024 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR5
DDR5-6400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 7 9800X3D vs Core Ultra 9 285K comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core Ultra 9 285K performs better than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 9800X3D in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more cores with 24 cores compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core Ultra 9 285K. Despite this, the Core Ultra 9 285K has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core Ultra 9 285K has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 7 9800X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core Ultra 9 285K.

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 9800X3D has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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