AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i7-11700

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i7-11700 specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3900X performs better than the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11700. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-11700. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a significantly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11700 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3900X thanks to a slightly 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 9 3900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700. 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.