AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Intel Core i7-11700

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Core i7-11700 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Ryzen 9 3900XT beats the Core i7-11700 in overall performance. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

When comparing core counts for these CPUs, we notice that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more cores with 12 cores compared to the Core i7-11700 that has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700. Despite this, the Core i7-11700 has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i7-11700 outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3900XT thanks to a slightly 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 3900XT has more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700. The Ryzen 9 3900XT also has significantly more L3 cache.

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 3900XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.