AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD 6 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 5 9600X

Price

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$ 229.99

$ 195.30

$ 34.69 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points

8673 points

2% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points

12393 points

46% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points

12% slightly better multitasking score

7498 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points

15% slightly better heavy workload score

7245 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

7587 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points

18% slightly higher Blender score

233.29 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points

14957 points

50% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points

3338 points

95% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

100% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

100% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz

3.9 GHz

2% slightly higher clock speed

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.4 GHz

17% 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

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

60% significantly more L1 cache

480 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

Identical

6 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

100% significantly more L3 cache

32 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089

118th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2024 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR5

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Ryzen 5 9600X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 5 9600X is faster than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900X 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 5 9600X has 6 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 5 9600X. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 5 9600X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 9 3900X. When comparing cache sizes, these CPUs have an identical amount of L2 cache. The Ryzen 9 3900X also has significantly more L3 cache.

Modern CPUs generally have more logical cores than physical cores, this means that each core is split into multiple virtual cores, improving efficiency for parallel workloads. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.