AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs AMD Ryzen 7 5800H

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 7 Mobile 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points

41% slightly better overall score

5963 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points

13% slightly better gaming score

7413 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points

52% significantly better multitasking score

5498 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points

56% significantly better heavy workload score

5377 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

6250 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points

71% significantly higher Blender score

161.72 points

Cinebench R23 score

Multi threaded benchmark

19000 points

43% significantly higher Cinebench R23 score

13214 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9929 points

44% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

6868 points

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1667 points

1714 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points

38% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

7168 points

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points

1749 points

2% 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

18% slightly higher clock speed

3.2 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

4% slightly higher turbo speed

4.4 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

45 W

133% significantly lower TDP

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

300% significantly more L3 cache

16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

130th of 1,089

251st of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Ryzen 7 Mobile

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 July

2021 December

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Ryzen 9 3900X vs Ryzen 7 5800H benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3900X is faster than the Ryzen 7 5800H. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 7 5800H 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 7 5800H has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 5800H. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed than the Ryzen 7 5800H. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 5800H 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 info from our database shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 7 5800H. 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.