AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs AMD Ryzen 3 4300U

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 3 Mobile 4 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
196% significantly better overall score
2845 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
61% significantly better gaming score
5224 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
286% significantly better multitasking score
2174 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
302% significantly better heavy workload score
2086 points

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points
494% significantly higher Blender score
46.55 points
Cinebench R23 score

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19000 points
432% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score
3571 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9929 points
192% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
3390 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1667 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
1233 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points
195% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
3358 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points
35% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score
1255 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
40% slightly higher clock speed
2.7 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
15 W
599% significantly lower TDP

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB
200% significantly more L1 cache
256 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
1500% significantly more L3 cache
4 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089
562nd of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 3 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2020 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Ryzen 3 4300U specs and performance

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3900X performs better than the Ryzen 3 4300U. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 3 4300U in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 3 4300U has 4 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 3 4300U. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 3 4300U. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 3 4300U 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 cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 3 4300U. 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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