AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Intel Core i9-10920X

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel Core X-series 12 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Intel Core i9-10920X

Price

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$ 389.99

$ 379.88 significantly less expensive

$ 769.87

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8378 points

5% slightly better overall score

7975 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8533 points

8% slightly better gaming score

7849 points

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8330 points

3% slightly better multitasking score

8024 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8329 points

3% slightly better heavy workload score

8038 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8585 points

11797 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

275.17 points

9% slightly higher Blender score

251.40 points

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10007 points

10590 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1698 points

8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score

1572 points

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9918 points

11106 points

11% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1737 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

1664 points

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

Identical

Threads

Number of logical processing units

Identical

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz

8% slightly higher clock speed

3.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz

2% slightly higher turbo speed

4.6 GHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W

57% significantly lower TDP

165 W

L1 Cache

Smallest embedded memory, but the fastest

768 KiB

Identical

768 KiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB

156% significantly more L3 cache

25 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

141st of 1,125

158th of 1,125

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop

Core X-series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July

2019 November

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4

DDR4-2933

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Core i9-10920X benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Ryzen 9 3900XT is faster than the Core i9-10920X. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Core i9-10920X in all gaming tests too.

Info from our database shows that they both have the same core count and the same number of threads. Our comparison shows that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-10920X. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3900XT CPU outputs less heat than a Core i9-10920X CPU because of its significantly lower TDP. This measures the amount of heat they output and can be used to estimate power consumption.

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.