AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs Intel Core i9-13950HX

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 13th Generation Core i9 24 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points
9156 points
8% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
9937 points
17% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
9021 points
7% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
9146 points
8% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points
12485 points
45% significantly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points
331.39 points
19% slightly higher Blender score
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19000 points
33277 points
75% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
24
100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
32
33% slightly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
72% significantly higher clock speed
2.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5.5 GHz
19% slightly higher turbo speed

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

2
Identical
2

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
16 MiB
166% significantly more L2 cache

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
77% significantly more L3 cache
36 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089
109th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
13th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2023 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5-5600

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
-

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
Yes

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Core i9-13950HX benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i9-13950HX performs better than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900X in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more cores with 24 cores whereas the Ryzen 9 3900X has 12 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 3900X. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-13950HX. Despite this, the Core i9-13950HX has a slightly higher turbo speed. In terms of cache, the Core i9-13950HX has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Ryzen 9 3900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Core i9-13950HX.

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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