Ryzen 9 3900X vs Ryzen 5 8600G comparison
In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900X beats the Ryzen 5 8600G in overall performance. Despite this, the Ryzen 5 8600G has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.
With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Ryzen 5 8600G has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 8600G. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 9 3900X. Also, the Ryzen 5 8600G has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 5 8600G 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. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical 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.
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