AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D

Price

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$ 229.99

$ 100.00 significantly less expensive

$ 329.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points

20% slightly better overall score

6994 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points

2% slightly better gaming score

8202 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points

27% slightly better multitasking score

6575 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points

30% slightly better heavy workload score

6440 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points

27% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6750 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

187.18 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points

10106 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points

1922 points

12% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

49% significantly more cores

Threads

Number of logical processing units

49% significantly more threads

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.80 GHz

6% slightly higher clock speed

3.58 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

12% slightly higher turbo speed

4.1 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

Identical

105 W

Memory Channels

Lanes for simultaneous memory access

Identical

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

49% significantly more L1 cache

512 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

49% significantly more L2 cache

4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

96 MiB

49% significantly more L3 cache

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089

194th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 5000 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

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Ryzen 7 5700X3D benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3900X is faster than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5700X3D 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 5700X3D. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. The info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5700X3D. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 5700X3D has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 9 3900X.

The more cores a CPU has, the better the overall performance will be in parallel workloads such as multitasking. Many CPUs have more threads than cores, this means that each physical core is split into multiple logical cores, making them more efficient. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900X has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.