AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i9-10900F

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i9-10900F specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3900X is faster than the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3900X has slightly more cores than the Core i9-10900F. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has 12 cores compared to 10 cores found in the Core i9-10900F. It also has more threads than the Core i9-10900F. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i9-10900F. Despite this, the Core i9-10900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-10900F 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. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i9-10900F. 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.