AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 7600

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Ryzen 5 7600 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900X beats the Ryzen 5 7600 in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 7600 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 5 7600. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has 12 cores compared to 6 cores found in the Ryzen 5 7600. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 7600. Both the Ryzen 9 3900X and Ryzen 5 7600 have the same clock speed. In terms of cache, both these CPUs have the same amount of L2 cache. 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.