AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i9-10900

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 10th Generation Core i9 10 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
$ 160.78 significantly less expensive
$ 390.77

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points
11% slightly better overall score
7582 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
8692 points
2% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
16% slightly better multitasking score
7207 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
18% slightly better heavy workload score
7099 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points
12127 points
41% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points
68% significantly higher Blender score
164.66 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9929 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
7743 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1667 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1567 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points
19% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
8309 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points
1714 points
0.59% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
20% slightly more cores
10

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
20% slightly more threads
20

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
35% slightly higher clock speed
2.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.2 GHz
13% slightly higher turbo speed

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
20% slightly more L1 cache
640 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
139% significantly more L2 cache
2.5 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
220% significantly more L3 cache
20 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089
164th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
10th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2020 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i9-10900 benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3900X performs better than the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has slightly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-10900 has 10 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900. Despite this, the Core i9-10900 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10900 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 i9-10900. 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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