AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs AMD Ryzen 3 1300X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 Desktop 4 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
$ 20.00 slightly less expensive
$ 249.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points
234% significantly better overall score
2517 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
82% significantly better gaming score
4619 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
336% significantly better multitasking score
1924 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
354% significantly better heavy workload score
1846 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points
475% significantly higher Blender score
48.09 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19000 points
445% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
3486 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9929 points
228% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3018 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1667 points
60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1039 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points
217% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3124 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points
54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1100 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
200% significantly more cores
4

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
499% significantly more threads
4

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
8% slightly higher clock speed
3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
24% slightly higher turbo speed
3.7 GHz

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
100% significantly more L1 cache
384 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
200% significantly more L2 cache
2 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
700% significantly more L3 cache
8 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089
624th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 3 Desktop

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2017 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Ryzen 3 1300X comparison

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900X beats the Ryzen 3 1300X in overall performance. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 1300X in all gaming tests too.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Ryzen 3 1300X that has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 1300X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 3 1300X. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 1300X 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 Ryzen 3 1300X. The Ryzen 9 3900X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.

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