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

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

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3900XT is faster than the Core i7-11700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-11700KF has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more cores than the Core i7-11700KF. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has 12 cores compared to 8 cores found in the Core i7-11700KF. It also has more threads than the Core i7-11700KF. With our hardware info, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher clock speed than the Core i7-11700KF. Despite this, the Core i7-11700KF has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3900XT CPU outputs less heat than a Core i7-11700KF CPU because of its slightly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption. The cache sizes of these CPUs are different. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more L2 cache than the Core i7-11700KF. The Ryzen 9 3900XT 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 3900XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.