AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT vs AMD EPYC 7543P

Ryzen 9 3900XT vs EPYC 7543P comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark tool, the EPYC 7543P is faster than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Despite this, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

In terms of the number of cores of each of these CPUs, the EPYC 7543P has significantly more cores than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. Indeed, the EPYC 7543P has 32 cores compared to 12 cores found in the Ryzen 9 3900XT. It also has more threads than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. These CPUs have different clock speeds. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the EPYC 7543P. Also, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has a slightly higher turbo speed. A Ryzen 9 3900XT CPU outputs less heat than a EPYC 7543P CPU because of its significantly 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 EPYC 7543P has significantly more L2 cache than the Ryzen 9 3900XT. The EPYC 7543P also has significantly more L3 cache.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Ryzen 9 3900XT has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.