AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 8600G

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Price

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$ 229.99
$ 222.50
$ 7.49 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points
10% slightly better overall score
7604 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points
10588 points
25% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points
26% slightly better multitasking score
6642 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points
30% slightly better heavy workload score
6422 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points
39% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
6178 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points
59% significantly higher Blender score
173.75 points
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points
10810 points
9% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points
2486 points
45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
100% significantly more cores
6

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
100% significantly more threads
12

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz
4.35 GHz
14% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz
5 GHz
8% slightly higher turbo speed

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

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB
Identical
6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

131st of 1,091
160th of 1,091

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
Ryzen 8000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July
2024 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
Yes

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