AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Intel Core i9-11900F

Compare AMD Ryzen 9 Desktop 12 core CPU vs Intel 11th Generation Core i9 8 core processor, specs and benchmark score. Which is the better CPU for gaming?

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Price

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$ 389.99
$ 329.00
$ 60.99 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

A combined score of all workloads

8378 points
1% slightly better overall score
8228 points

Gaming Score

The raw gaming performance with a fast GPU

8533 points
10552 points
23% slightly better gaming score

Multitasking Score

Performance in workloads using up to 8 cores

8330 points
11% slightly better multitasking score
7484 points

Heavy Workload Score

Performance in workloads using up to 16 cores

8329 points
14% slightly better heavy workload score
7301 points

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Physics score

3DMark Physics score

Physics simulation benchmark

8585 points
11422 points
33% slightly higher 3DMark Physics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

275.17 points
65% significantly higher Blender score
166.69 points
Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Geekbench 5 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

10007 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (multi) score
9643 points
Geekbench 5 (single) score

Geekbench 5 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1698 points
2228 points
31% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (single) score
Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Geekbench 6 (multi) score

Multi threaded benchmark

9918 points
4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (multi) score
9503 points
Geekbench 6 (single) score

Geekbench 6 (single) score

Single threaded benchmark

1737 points
2234 points
28% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (single) score

Specifications

Cores

Number of physical processing units

12
49% significantly more cores
8

Threads

Number of logical processing units

24
49% significantly more threads
16

Clock Speed

Base frequency at which the chip operates

3.8 GHz
52% significantly higher clock speed
2.5 GHz

Turbo Speed

Higher frequency used for heavy workloads

4.7 GHz
5.2 GHz
10% slightly higher turbo speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the CPU

105 W
65 W
61% significantly lower TDP

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
49% significantly more L2 cache
4 MiB

L3 Cache

General memory pool for all cores

64 MiB
300% significantly more L3 cache
16 MiB

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

131st of 1,089
137th of 1,089

Family

The product line

Ryzen 9 Desktop
11th Generation Core i9

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 July
2021 February

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

DDR4
DDR4-3200

Is Unlocked

Can this CPU can be overclocked

Yes
No

Supports ECC memory

Does this CPU support error correcting memory

-
No

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs Core i9-11900F benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the Core i9-11900F is faster than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Furthermore, our gaming benchmark shows that it also outperforms the Ryzen 9 3900XT in all gaming tests too.

With info from our database, we find that the Ryzen 9 3900XT has significantly more cores with 12 cores whereas the Core i9-11900F has 8 cores. It also has more threads than the Core i9-11900F. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a significantly higher clock speed compared to the Core i9-11900F. Despite this, the Core i9-11900F has a slightly higher turbo speed. The Core i9-11900F outputs less heat than Ryzen 9 3900XT 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 9 3900XT has more L2 cache than the Core i9-11900F. 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.

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