AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i5-6300U

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 6th Generation Core i5 2 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
$ 1941.01 significantly less expensive
$ 2171.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points
687% significantly better overall score
1069 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
303% significantly better gaming score
2091 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
949% significantly better multitasking score
801 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
991% significantly better heavy workload score
769 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points
1253% significantly higher Blender score
20.45 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9929 points
656% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
1313 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1667 points
183% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
587 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
499% significantly more cores
2

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
499% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
58% significantly higher clock speed
2.4 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
53% significantly higher turbo speed
3 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
15 W
599% significantly lower TDP

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089
929th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
6th Generation Core i5

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2015 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2133

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i5-6300U benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3900X performs better than the Core i5-6300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i5-6300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i5-6300U has 2 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i5-6300U. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i5-6300U. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a significantly higher turbo speed. The Core i5-6300U 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 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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