AMD Ryzen 9 3900X vs AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs AMD Ryzen 9000 Series 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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AMD Ryzen 7 9700X

Price

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$ 229.99

$ 71.57 significantly less expensive

$ 301.56

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8422 points

11120 points

32% slightly better overall score

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8440 points

13778 points

63% significantly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8406 points

10239 points

21% slightly better multitasking score

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8392 points

9995 points

19% slightly better heavy workload score

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8594 points

9722 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

276.80 points

302.05 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9907 points

16965 points

71% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1704 points

3349 points

96% significantly 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

0.03% slightly higher clock speed

3.8 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.6 GHz

5.5 GHz

19% 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

20% slightly more L1 cache

640 KiB

L2 Cache

Secondary embedded memory, slower than L1 cache

6 MiB

8 MiB

33% slightly more L2 cache

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

67th 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 7 9700X specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 7 9700X 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 7 9700X has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 7 9700X. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900X has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X. Despite this, the Ryzen 7 9700X has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Ryzen 7 9700X 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 7 9700X has more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 3900X. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900X has significantly more L3 cache compared to the Ryzen 7 9700X.

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.