Ryzen 9 3900X vs Ryzen 7 3700X benchmarks
According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3900X is faster than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 3700X in all gaming tests too.
In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 3700X. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 3700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 3700X. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 3700X 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 7 3700X. 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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