AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Intel Core i7-11700K

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Core i7-11700K benchmarks

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Ryzen 9 3900XT performs better than the Core i7-11700K. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i7-11700K has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700K. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i7-11700K. Despite this, the Core i7-11700K has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3900XT CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11700K CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. In terms of cache, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more L2 cache when compared to the Core i7-11700K. 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.