AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i3-9100F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 9th Generation Core i3 4 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

$ 229.99
$ 89.78
$ 140.22 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points
197% significantly better overall score
2834 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
60% significantly better gaming score
5250 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
289% significantly better multitasking score
2158 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
305% significantly better heavy workload score
2071 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points
134% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
3666 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points
427% significantly higher Blender score
52.49 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9929 points
178% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3570 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1667 points
23% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1346 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points
162% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3775 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points
21% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1405 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
200% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
499% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
5% slightly higher clock speed
3.6 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
9% slightly higher turbo speed
4.2 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache
256 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
499% significantly more L2 cache
1 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
966% significantly more L3 cache
6 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089
565th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
9th Generation Core i3

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2019 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2400

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i3-9100F comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900X beats the Core i3-9100F in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i3-9100F in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i3-9100F that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i3-9100F. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-9100F. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i3-9100F outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3900X thanks to a 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 9 3900X has more L2 cache than the Core i3-9100F. The Ryzen 9 3900X also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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