AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i7-11700KF

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3900X is faster than the Core i7-11700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-11700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

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 i7-11700KF that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700KF. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3900X CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11700KF CPU because of its 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 i7-11700KF. 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.